I remember ice fishing in February on a pond in New Hampshire and how the ice wound up being something like 4 feet thick. We discovered this after chopping a hole through it with a pretty heavy harpoon-like tool.
The ice would look whitish in color as you began to work on this couple foot wide hole that was going to have liquid in it soon.
As you got to around 2 and a half feet, you would already have gotten lazy and the hole in the ice would be a couple feet in diameter at the surface but would already be only like the dimensions of a bucket, 2 and a half feet down.
The ice at the bottom of the hole would start to look darker, a sign that you were "seeing the water," and this would encourage you, but you would find that you still had almost 2 feet to go before your harpoon was going to break through. At the point of this happening, the hole that you chopped through the ice to use for ice fishing would be a couple feet in diameter at the surface and the diameter of the harpoon like tool at the very bottom. The almost ice cold pond would gush through the hole that you made when you hit pay-dirt and then, any attempts to widen the hole so that you could use it for ice fishing would have to be done with the hole now full of water. At least this meant that everything you chipped would float tout the surface, where it would be easy to scoop out.
So that is where I am at. I have gotten lazy and my hole is shaped like a snow cone, but it goes all the way through the ice...
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