Nope, the ducks will come right back next year. At least the migratory ones will. Your resident swamp ducks, your woodies and hooded mergansers,may take a while to find it again, but they'll come back too. Also, with all the rain yall are getting now your holes should fill back up. I am basing this on a study I read a while back that was conducted over several years that tracked a few mallards, pintails, etc., and they found thatin a year of varying temperatures during the migratory season (like we had this year), some ducks would travel almost the entire flyway 6 - 10 times. Each trip, the ducks studiedwould make pit stops at the same fields, timber, and other water sources along the way. So I wouldn't be too worried. Those ducks have a homing instinct.

By the way, what part of GA are you from? My parents live in Brazelton and we used to live in Fayetteville. I wantedto hunt Lake Hartwell last year, but I got too hung up on hunting here in Tennessee.