More than fish get hooked on a fly line

At age 75, after more than 50 years of fly fishing, Wil Huett hopes to learn how to tie his own flies.

His son, Matt, was so good at tying flies, he was asked to do it for professionals. But Matt married into a golfing family, and so he hung up his rod and passed along his equipment to his father.

Huett is a past president in charge of community outreach for Rocky Mountain Flycasters, a Larimer County chapter of Trout Unlimited. He also, of course, fishes as much as he can and has…