I don't think southern new England ever had a winter this year.
I was out ice fishing in the lakes region (NH) on 18-20" of ice last weekend, but this weekend in the Boston outskirts the only place we could ice the past month was in our drinks.
Fortunately the fish are responding to ice out rather nicely.
Fished a small pond I like to target early for pickerel, and was rewarded with lots of bass, one pickerel and a few "hand-sized" sunfish.
What I loved about this is that this pond had a bad "winter-kill" a few years back where most of the biggest fish died under the ice.
If what I caught this weekend is an indication of the population of fish in this pond, it's well of its way to becoming a nice big fish water again.