RE: new duck hunter (FL)
If you have a dog... watch out for gators. Happened to someone every year when I lived in SC. Terrible thing to hear about.
If I was y'all.... I'd save my money and take a trip to LA, MS, AR, or canada. There are spots here and there in Fla that I've heard about (mostly around Lake O.) that have some fair to decent duck hunting. But most of them are no big secret.