Icing up is a problem and will be for me over the next coupe of months, I don’t like the idea of anti-freeze for the sane reasons as most of you, what’s it doing to the line? Dipping the end of the rod in the water when retrieving may be OK in some instances but when you’re trying to lift your swim-feeder over obstructions on the river bed, bunging your rod tip under the water doesn’t seem very helpful? I think I’ll try glycerine, how long does it last between applications? Last time out I had two rods out, one on the method no bites and in the water for about two hours, and one which was seeing a bit of action on the swim-feeder. The reel on the method rod froze up, never had this happen before? Although thinking about it, I may have dumped some water on it while I was lifting a dripping landing net over the top of the rod.