I'm 99% sure it's not going to work unless the transducer is moving along, as it would in a boat. You can take a regular ice ducer, somehow fasten it to a pole with a bent end (like a golf putter), stick it in the hole and rotate it around. Obviously the depth won't be accurate because it's pointed at an angle, but it will work to "see" fish around the area. I've done this before by just swinging my transducer around underwater, although it is hard to swing it when there is a lot of ice.