Home Winemaking Goes With Fly Fishing
June 16th, 2009 | 
Author: I know of a few fly anglers that also make their own wine. Jack Keller is one, and so is Ernie Kalwa, the Captain of the Fly Fishing team (The Osprey’s) that I used to be a member of. Not sure which one of us ties the better flies, but I know it’s not me! Although I do enjoy doing that. Today and yesterday, I had two good days to combine my two hobbies. And one advantage a home winemaker has if they’ve brought a fish back to eat for dinner is that wine selection is not difficult. Whatever is there! For me, the bottle of Liebfraumilch was a good pairing with the baked trout and rice I made. And on top of that, the fly that I caught the trout on yesterday was made with hair from my Maltese dog named Rudy. You can read about the afternoon fly fishing here.
Winemaking activities included racking and degassing. The maple wine I started on May 5 is expelling lots of co2 gas still, even though the fermentation is complete. The specific gravity was at 0.996 yesterday when I racked it – it’s cleared nicely on it’s own since the last racking on May 28th. It has a very interesting taste – I just had very teeny sip of it, and could taste maple candy – but without the sweetness. I’m looking forward to seeing how this will age a few more months.
I started three wine kits two weeks ago – a Chamblaise and two Vieux De Roi. All are four week kits – I generally use 8 week kits for red wines but I wanted some Vieux De Roi and it was only available at the time in the more economical priced version. I noted that these two kits in the instructions called for 14 days in the primary fermenter. Anyhow, these three kit wines were racked and degassing is on going in all of them before I add the fining agents.
Then there is that potato wine! I’ve had a few interesting questions and comments about that. Like, “what does it taste like?” Yesterday, I racked and checked the specific gravity which was 1.002. It does taste a bit sweet – I’ll have to check my records on that one, but otherwise it is pleasant. I am reluctant to describe its taste just yet as it was only a very small amount and not quite what I expected or can really identify. The demerara sugar certainly has left it’s mark though.
The other day, I was snooping around some “stuff” I had and discovered two more wine kits I had forgotten about! They were purchased about September of 2007, just before I headed off to Grande Prairie, Alberta for the Canadian Fly Fishing Championships. I guess I had meant to start them upon my return, but totally forgot I had them. Both are Cru Select RQ’s: a Montepulciano Cab Merlot, the other Unoaked Chardonnay. I’m hoping and believing the juice will be fine but I will use fresh yeast when I start them, probably in about two weeks from now.
So there’s another connection between fly fishing and winemaking. One can get in the way of the other at times! Actually, it wasn’t the fly fishing that distracted me from these two kits back in 2007… 
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I tried just that with a 6 week kit I had forgotten in the basement for a couple of years. I got some new yeast and gave it a shot, but unfortunately it was not drinkable. As someone explained to me, “you can let you wine age, but grape juice does not age well”.
Ian, I stumbled on your website while looking for mapel syrup wine recipies and tips. Im not sure that you would remember me but, Im the guy that did the cornmaze for the canadian fly fishing championship when you guys came to Grande Priarie, AB. I brought in a 45 gal drum of maple syrup to add to my saskatoon wine and to do some maple wine and a maple ice wine. I was wondering how yours turned out? I have about 500L of saskatoon maple wine going now as my first big test batch for my cottage winery here at the RV Park. I hope to be licenced soon and join the 4 other wineries in Alberta that are already up and running. So if you ever get back to Grande Prairie you will have to look me up and come see if im open for business yet. I remember we had so much fun at your awards dinner and when you guys came out to tour the maze. Now that i know of this website I will be back to check out more information for sure.
Hi Jason!
I do remember you at the awards night in Grand Prairie, and it was very nice to hear from you with your comment on my blog. 500 litres of maple wine! That’s a lot of maple syrup – and wine, too.
Sounds like you have a great operation going there.
I have not tried my maple wine yet – it is still aging however I have been meaning to take a sample of it. I’m sure it’s ready to be bottled and consumed. My winemaking activities have slowed down a bit recently, but it’s the time of the year to get back into it.
Keep in touch and let me know how you make out with the license. I’m not in Grand Prairie that often, but I have found myself a number of times since the Championships to be in Whitecourt – Grand Prairie was a pretty special time for me as that is when and where I met the woman of my life! She lived in Whitecourt before moving to Guelph.
Keep in touch, Jason!
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