I was very surprised/excited to see yet another year for us in Iowa having a good mallard hatch. Between Saturday and Sunday we killed more mallards than teal which is surprising, think we ended up shooting 15 mallards in 2 days. What part of the state where you in in you don't mind me asking? We were up in north central part. A lot of weekend one and done hunters but overall good opener for us. And yep that was my buddies dog she retrieved 13 ducks and chased couple cripples around, mine was at home didn't figure a 5 month old should fend off spraying BB's from the duck dynasty fans that were out in full force.