There are 3 days left in the 2008 ice fishing season, and there's still a lot of ice covering many area bodies of water.

But that doesn't mean they're all safe.

According to the acting colonel of the Maine Warden Service, Greg Sanborn, it may look like winter but that doesn't necessarily mean it is.

“Several snowfalls blanketed what was thin ice early in the season and for a while that created a danger for ice anglers and snowmobilers,” Sanborn said. “But as winter progressed and temperatures fell below freezing, layers of ice formed on top of the snow making the lakes and ponds useable. Now as temperatures warm, those early snowfalls have become problematic again. Ice that looks thick could actually be thin and unsafe because of that snow.”

People should be cautious, particularly around inlets and outlets because most of them have open water and they should be careful around obstacles that retain heat, such as rocks.

Ice is thinning all around us.