How do you fix this?

[JohnR]

I make myself much more available this time of year for things other than fishing, knowing that my mistress arrives in May.

If I was single I'd be chasing like that, well, I'd probably go to Florida for a couple weekends a month. But now, I just wait. And hope to get a couple quick trips in with friends.

[FishermanTim]

I had gone through my winter blues stage years ago, until I found something that required me to g outside to enjoy it.
That was skiing some 20+ tears ago. After thet came snowboarding until the knees (and cost) drove me off the slopes. I still had a desire to be outside in the winter, so I tried ice fishing. The first year was sooo boring, but once I started catching, I was really "hooked".
As it is now, I start thinking about first ice around Thanksgiving.
If you need a good incentive, at least for me, picture had lining a 3, 5 or 10+ lb. fish through a 8-10" hole. At times like these you don't feel the cold, only the surge of strength from the fish on the line.

We all have our wasys of dealing with the cold, and this is mine.

Oh, and when you get into late Feb and early March, you can have some really balmy days on the ice, so that cold isn't the problem, but more about cooling off.