Ice...

[Trapper John]

Is a pain. Ducks and I both hate it. Spent an entire day trying to break out of a tiny cove into a bigger swamp/beaver pond/small lake on the farm, but it proved impossible. Completely frozen and was still frozen when I gave up at 2 PM. It was half an inch thick in some places, thicker in others. I watched from shore as a bunch of gadwalls and mallards circled before getting ticked off and going on their way. Then more gadwalls. Then some unidentifiables at greater distances.

Ducks were plentiful, but had nowhere to set their landing gear.

 

[Cache]

Time for a ice eater!

 

[scn]

Sometimes cutting it into "sheets" and pushing them under the other ice will work.

A bucket of water with blue dye on the ice with a couple of keelless decoys can sometimes work as well.

 

[callemquacktn]

Ice eater is the ticket! Or find a pond with a spring.