Let’s face it. Not everybody is cut from the same cloth.

Just as some people like fishing and others do not, some people will walk out on a frozen lake, drill holes and sit for hours in sub-freezing weather jigging for whatever might happen to swim within range, while others question whether ice fishing really ought to be a thing.

I have several friends who love ice fishing so much that they grow overly anxious that a January thaw will ruin their winter. Fishing buddy Tyler Woak of Niles is rigged and ready weeks before the freeze and claims to love the white-out experience chasing wintertime crappies just as much as the balmy days he spends bass fishing in summer.

To each his or her own, of course, so I’ve put my ice-fishing days in the rearview mirror. I enjoy warm days on the front deck casting to open-water weed lines, stumps and brush piles a whole lot more than dragging a sled across bumpy ice and dressing in so many layers that I can barely bend my knees.

I am content to park the Bass Cat and take several months off. This is not to say my fishing fire has burned out. Rather, I’ve merely banked the coals so they’re ready to fan to flames when warm weather returns and the trees are budding.

In the meantime, I keep a bunch of reminders front and center. They prompt fond memories of good times and big catches. Last week, we covered rod and reel maintenance to pass our idle fishing time productively. Today, we explore other pastimes and prompts to remind us that happy days are coming.

When I open my laptop, for example, the screen comes alive with a photo of the Bass Cat bobbing on the slick surface of Shenango Reservoir at dawn one October morning. The picture warms my heart and kick-starts memories of autumn mornings on the lake followed by afternoons watching football on TV.

When I feel my fishing fever ebbing in winter, I reach for the stack of magazines in the drawer of the table next to my La-Z-Boy recliner. A half hour or so flies fast as I flick the pages and read the exciting features.

The internet, of course, offers easy pickings for anglers needing a mid-winter fishing fix. Clicks here and there will retrieve articles about any topic a fishing mind might imagine. We have opportunities aplenty to entertain ourselves while the snow flies and even learn a thing or two to take to the lake in the spring.

My phone’s photo gallery, as you might guess, is full of photos of fish and friends on past fishing trips that ranged from Lake Erie to Naples, Fla. I love a good fish pic and rarely pass up the opportunity to memorialize my catches of largemouths, smallies, walleyes, saugers, northern pike, crappies, steelhead and even peacock bass. My photo archive features pictures of Ted Suffolk, Ray Halter, Tyler Woak, John Breedlove, Austin Dunlap, Jason Fantone, Destin DeMarion, John Hirschbeck and other fishing buddies at Erie, the Ohio River, Shenango, Mosquito, Mogadore, Chautauqua, Pine and Evans lakes for the United Way Bass Classic, and other favorite waters.

Reliving fun catches is a great reminder that spring is just six weeks away.

Yes, six weeks until mid-March, the time I mark every year as Jack’s first day of spring. So who needs ice fishing to keep me busy until spring?

Cool photos, surfing the ‘net, and browsing my stack of Bassmaster magazines helps make six weeks seem like a blink of the eye.

Jack Wollitz has been a four-seasons angler for many years as he does “research” for his Vindicator and Tribune Chronicle column. Contact him at jackbbaass@gmail.com