Primarily flight/pass shooting on the saltmarshes, involving a lot of fieldcraft and reconnaisance, not a little luck, and hopefully some decent blowing winds and cold temperatures. Dogs will always be with us if possible given the amt of water/mud. If we go out without dogs, we would restrict ourselves only to non-flooded areas where any shot bird could be safely and humanely retrieved easily on foot.
Occasionally shoot over decoys but this tends to be tideflighting where a set of decoys is placed on a main creek running out to sea.
Wildfowling, like waterfowling in North America, has a lot of history and tradition and that does not change to this day. I love all forms of shooting, but if I had to choose one, it would be wildfowling. Out in wild places, at dawn and dusk, with often no one around for miles is absolutely magic - and although there is no guarantee of any shots, when it works, it really feels as if you have made an effort for the hunt. "Red letter days" in pure numbers shot terms are however very few and far between!
Back a hundred years ago, there were a decent number of professional wildfowlers on the coast of N Norfolk, and they made their base in Wells-next-the-Sea. You would often get people up from London taken out by professional guides, and outside of this, the chaps were out in all weathers, sometimes living on the foreshore in houseboats.
