cold snap here gonna freeze things up

[L-ofalab]

I've heard blue food dye mixed in five gallon bucks of water.

Heard the same just haven't tried it. Usually when the water freezes they just leave the area and head to the rivers. I used to live across the street from the Spokane river and I think it has only frozen one time in the last 60 years.

[full choke]

Everyone and their mom says that they have tried the plastic/colored dye on ice trick, but I have never seen anyone post up pictures of their set up in action. So, let's see them...

[h2ofowlr]

I've heard visqueen heavy duty "clear" plastic looks like water or ice to the birds.  Apparantly the open water layout hunters drap it over their boats and birds dont see them at all.  Might work well for laying out on the thick shore ice.

In open water we will run the heavier duty clear visqueen on the layout boats.  It works pretty good.