Checking Depth Through The Ice

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>grpubl7 wrote:</div>
So, you admit to never have taken chemistry in high school?

Aside from the fact that I have a degree in chemistry and I literally make my living as a chemist…

But go ahead and keep thinking you know everything.

Oops!

I was surprised to discover I had posted in this thread. Then I looked at the date. No wonder why I didn’t remember.

Augers have gotten better. Lighter, faster, portable etc.

Navionics is awesome but it may be off in lakes that fluctuate water levels like reservoirs. My navionics is offset like 20 foot for Lake Sakakawea.

Not sure who makes it but there is a tiny little 2 inch auger with a measure on it specifically for quickly scouting ice. I think they are used by resorts to make ice roads.

crappie55369 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Dusty Gesinger wrote:</div>
Already enough salt in the lakes, water or drill a hole.

this. how about just no chemicals on the ice period

+1

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>grpubl7 wrote:</div>
So, you admit to never have taken chemistry in high school?

Aside from the fact that I have a degree in chemistry and I literally make my living as a chemist…

But go ahead and keep thinking you know everything.

Hope you didn’t pay much for that degree, LOL.

ALL blends of alcohol (there are many) are not as dense as water and will therefore float in water. All blends of alcohol have a highly volatile atom and will therefore evaporate far quicker than water.

In chemistry, volatility is a material quality which describes how readily a substance vaporizes.

Here endith the lesson…..

I just pee on the ice and place my transducer down. It’s also easier to see the spots that you sounded.

grpubl7 wrote:

Here endith the lesson…..

I just peed my pants!

I’m from a time when we singed our ducks (chickens and everything else for that matter) with denatured alcohol in a pickling jar cover. You know, back when we plucked the whole bird and didn’t just pull out the breast?

Well, anyway once lit the alcohol lasted a good while before it was consumed. At least 15 minutes. I don’t ever remember it evaporating faster then when it was burning. I spose it would evaporate on ice before the spring thaw, but really, don’t we put enough crap on our ice and in our waters now?

PS I don’t play a chemist on the internet or tv but I did sleep in a boat last night.

grpubl7 wrote:

Here endith the lesson…

Jeezus, I cannot believe I am even responding to this, but denatured alcohol is mainly ethanol with some other additives which make it toxic, so it cannot be consumed (and therefore, is not taxed as booze).

While you are correct that ethanol is, indeed, less dense than water, it is also miscible in water (as are methanol and isopropanol, both common alcohols), meaning that ethanol and water can be mixed in any proportion. So no, it will not float on top of the water. If it did, you would have to shake up the liquor bottles in your cabinet as they are roughly 40:60 ethanol:water.

Thank you for your lesson, though, Professor!

alcohol can actually have an affinity for water … aka 100% isopropyl alcohol (HEAT) used to restore water tainted gasoline to engine running condition.

water and alcohol miscibility trumps and density difference preventing any chance of separation.

denaturants can often be some nasty solvents

drill the hole

castle-rock-clown wrote:

I just pee on the ice and place my transducer down. It’s also easier to see the spots that you sounded.

You need to be careful Castle Rock! I was where I thought I would be out of sight on the ice to take an urgent leak. Turns out a CO had been watching me with his binoculars.

Got my first ticket ever.

That wasn’t so bad but when I found out the fine was $900.00, I was shocked!!

Guess they charge $100. an inch.

i about spit my coffee all over my screen on that on BK!!!!!!!!!

I thought I heard it was $200.00 an inch. But it’s your story BK.

“ALL blends of alcohol (there are many) are not as dense as water and will therefore float in water. All blends of alcohol have a highly volatile atom and will therefore evaporate far quicker than water.

In chemistry, volatility is a material quality which describes how readily a substance vaporizes.

Here endith the lesson…..”

Let me guess….yoora recent public school grad? …musta missed the lecture about ethanol being hydroscopic, right?

$1000/inch.

Well he was 10 feet away.

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Ralph Wiggum wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>grpubl7 wrote:</div>
evaporates pretty fast

Not at icefishing temperatures, it doesn’t.

So that’s why people get so wasted ice drinking!
Good to know.

Here is an idea. Let me know where you are fishing. Instead of dumping alcohol on the ice you pour me a shot I’ll make it evaporate then drill a hole for ya and check the depth.
Or I’ll look at my map and tell ya a pretty damn good guess.

Ripjiggen wrote:

Here is an idea. Let me know where you are fishing. Instead of dumping alcohol on the ice you pour me a shot I’ll make it evaporate then drill a hole for ha and check the depth.
Or I’ll look at my map and tell ya a pretty damn good guess.

I’ll be in the Bdub in a couple weeks… see ya there.

That’s the only place I’ve ever done the check depth through the ice thing and guess what… water. straight up liquid H20, right out of the lake. It works great to check depth! This whole thread is borderline insanity.

It might be my new favorite thread.
Mostly because the only misinformation given was BK’s.

You know Rip, I do have a feeling left. Try not to hurt it!

They make meds for that BK. May help keep your fine down next time too.

Brian Klawitter wrote:

You know Rip, I do have a feeling left. Try not to hurt it!

Settle down Kickstand…

It’s “Hygroscopic” son…..