Check the ice as you set up at this weekend's fishing derbies
Ice thickness and quality remain inconsistent on Maine’s lakes and ponds, but you can still enjoy some ice fishing if you're careful.
Source: bangordailynews.com
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Ice thickness and quality remain inconsistent on Maine’s lakes and ponds, but you can still enjoy some ice fishing if you're careful.
By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff Most of Maine barely has any snow to enjoy the outdoors — and adding insult to injury is the limited amount of safe ice on many of the state’s lakes and ponds forcing the cancellation of local ice fishing derbies. So far this winter, warm temperatures and a significant pre-Christmas rainstorm have been instrumental in slowing the formation of ice in many areas of Maine.