Hal - For late season use I made a push pole with a duckbill at one end and a steel tip on the other. Getting the dog at the back with me to raise the bow a bit, I used the duckbill to push the boat up onto the ice - then reversed the pole and used the steel tip to bite the ice and push it. It's surprising how fast you can get the Ducker skittering across the ice. Awfully noisy, though!

Pinning the Ducker to the marsh bottom by pushing a couple of poles down through those stabilizer tubes made it virtually untippable. Probably the safest small duck boat ever made.

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