I'll bet there are many who would. This is a pond drained in late January and this picture is at eye level.
What you see here is red rooted flatsedge (which is capable of producing 2,000 lbs/acre of seed), wild millet (which is capable of producing about 1,500 lbs/acre of seed), smartweed (which can be a great food source for ducks if you have the higher yielding annual types, sesbania (also known as coffeweed which has little food value for ducks) and cattail (which has little food value for ducks but can provide cover and food for invertebrates which ducks eat).
The sesbania and cattail can and will dominate at which point they should be controlled by various methods. This pond will be disked partially next summer to facilitate the planting of trees on 2/3's of it. More than likely the following spring the moist-soil portion will be disked to set back succession and to control the cattail.
Just an example of what results you can get with water management and knowing how to manage for good plants that feed ducks. In my case, it's what happened without me doing anything more than dropping the water level.
) look at that, I'm thinking I love that diversity but in a year or two those cattail and coffeeweed may dominate this place because they are so prolific (each one of those cattail seed heads holds a gajillion seeds). But on the other hand, I see the sedge and I remember that it is very aggressive too!!
have moonpies will travel