[upthesaukee]

Well, Mother Nature is doing her thing in a big way. Despite the quality of the picture (I had it on manual focus and exposure from playing around with it last night), you can see the open water to the bandstand and beyond. Here's the picture...Again, sorry for the poor quality, but I wanted to get this posted as soon as possible

I spoke with Lirpa Sloof, longtime Mirror Lake resident and ardent fisherman. He has been at opening day here in Alton for more than 40 years and can't remember the last time the ice moved out past the band stand so fast. He questioned weather it was the speed of the water coming in from the Merrymeeting, or if it was just Mother Nature doing her thing for the fisherman.

Another local guy, I. W. Harper found these happenings to be staggering to the mind. He feels that with the weather coming in over the weekend, we could see ice out by the 15th.

As far as the fishing is concerned, Will Phulea said things were really slow all day, not hits, and he didn't see any one catch or even hook a fish.

Got to go, again sorry for the poor quality of the photo, but in the words of my friend from Mirror Lake, lirpA slooF, "April Fools"!