Welcome to this week's foul Friday Tip of the Week, brought to you by H.P. Outdoors.

Here's your host, Josh Palm, and Dan here with another foul Friday quick tip of the week.

This week we're going to talk about how you deal with ice and how to break it open and

how to keep it open as we get here into the

later parts of the season and some of the water around you may start to lock up.

The biggest thing is, you know, sometimes open water is the name of the game if water is locking up all around you and you're able to keep some water open

uh... you're going to find yourself in the chips when it comes for birds

uh... looking to work your area so one of the ways that we found to keep ice

open here is kind of a DIY sort of home remedy type of situation but what we

utilized was a homemade bubbler you know a

poor man's icy deer where we basically bought a you know a cheap little air

compressor from harbor freight and we hooked up an air hose to it and we ran it all the way down to the water

where our blind was and then we sunk it with a cinder block or something like that and

then you just turn the air compressor on and we were fortunate enough in this

particular location to have power on site, but if you

need a generator or something like that, you can run the bubbler and the bubbler will keep,

you know, you just turn the air on and it runs through the hose and the bubbles will keep the water open, not quite as large of an area as a ice heater as we commonly know them in the waterfowl world, but the bubbler does work. Why this is important is because if you can keep a little bit of

water open, birds will find that and then they will help you keep it open even

more. So if they're using that to roost and loaf and things like that,

you know, as long as they're there, they're going to help keep it open.

And that leads us to kind of like the next point of this is you may want to consider

when you get to this point and you've got birds using your

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