Drilling Ice Fishing Hole With Hand Auger

Video Transcript

"Alright, let's talk about another method to drill holes in the ice, and that's a, a step up from a hand chisel. And, it's called a hand auger. Essentially, it looks like an, it looks like a screw. It has blades, usually two blades on the bottom. Again, safety, these blades are extremely sharp on these hand augers. You always want to make sure that the hand auger is covered with its cover when not in use, that you're aware of where the blades are. And if you have kids, or friends fishing with you, you warn them of this danger. Now, hand augers are great to have. They're light, they're relatively cheap. You can pick up a six inch model like this for, probably about sixty, seventy bucks. They come in sizes from four to six to eight to ten inches. I've found that any hand auger bigger than six inches is really, really difficult to use if you have say more than six, seven, eight inches of ice. And to use these, it's really very easy. You simply put them down on the ice, there's a handle that you want to press down. Most of these are adjustable. So depending on your height, you can move the handle up or down. Really all you do is you want to push down on it, and just turn the blade clockwise. And you can see the ice chips that come off and you just continue to press down, until you get all the way through it. And then when you're, you're down, you simply just reverse it a little bit and lift it right back up."