Bust a hole , slide the pieces of ice under the other ice

If there is a river close by with rapids
The rapids normaly stay ice free way past when the rest of the river and suronding lakes are iced up

If the ice is safe to walk on
Make your own "hole"
Blue or black plastic sheeting
Layed on the ice
Put feild decoys on the sheeting and on the ice around the plastic "hole"

Be sure to pick up the plastic at the end of the hunt

To funny , to watch a mallard try and land on the plastic
When it thinks it is water

John