Types of Ice Encountered when Ice Fishing

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"Okay, we're going to look at a couple of different types of ice and by looking down this hole, again this is our 6 inch or 7 inch wide hole, you're going to see at the very bottom if you follow the tip of this scoop down to the bottom, you can see that we have way down there about five, four or five inches of good solid clear ice. Now that's ice that you can't even see. There's no air bubbles in this ice. That's good solid ice. Now above we have about 6 inches of milky ice. Milky ice is very easy to drill through, however it's not quite as stable. So when you're using an auger, if you use an offset auger, it'll be a lot less work to drill through that thick clear ice. On an inline auger you can get through a milky ice a little quicker than an offset. There's a lot of different types of ice. There's also anchor ice."