No ice-fishing for you!

"Flowers are growing in Boston, for crying out loud," said Tim Jackson, the owner and manufacturer of Jack Traps ice fishing traps in Monmouth. "It's a little scary. The forecast for next week doesn't look good either. There's cold air up there (over Canada), but it just can't get here."

"Even as far north as Greenville Junction, where Kilburn works at the Indian Hill Motel, ice fishing's annual opening day is not just in jeopardy, it's already lost. Only the east and west coves on Moosehead Lake boast any ice, and none of what's there is safe, according to Kilburn. The entire middle of Moosehead remains open.
"I've been here all my life, and I don't ever remember seeing it like this," Kilburn said.
Perhaps what's most eerie is that even Moosehead isn't ready for ice fishing. Traditionally frozen and snow-covered at this point in the winter, there are precious few traces of either in Greenville."

"It's been an incredible season," said Butch Roberts, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Gray. "I moved my lawn on the 22nd."