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I know we all see them. a (non man made)hole in the otherwise thick ice with open water. some as big as u head others golf ball size. still others that are not open but are very clear and thinly iced. anyone know what causes this?
This happens when folks drop or throw their wax worms onto the surface of the ice. The wax worms will melt into the surface. Later the ice embedded wax worm, will be spotted by a passing woodpecker and the rest is self explanatory.
As for the woodpecker theory.....that certainly is interesting.
Just drains. Stars as a little tiny hole where two cracks meet, and as water is draining down it from melt or rain it gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
but its not draining anything, its 10*. all the other ice is 8+inch thick. there are several of them around the area. 8-10 fow under that. I have seen things, like rocks and leaves, melt into/threw the ice but these don't look like that. you could be rite still. we had a major warm up last week.
Wait a minute!!! You still got that much ice a little north of me...lol.
The wax worm woodpecker thing seems plausible, although I have not seen a woodpecker all winter!
How do you know they were not man-made?
that explains why those peckers were out there yesterday..same spot where two guys were fishing..