A Silver Grey kind of day....

 Its one of those kind of summer days.  You know... warm, muggy, cloudy.  Not totally unpleasant, but still not the kind of day that really makes you want to hop up and go do something.  So, today became a Silver Grey kind of day.  And rightly so.  The colors of this pattern almost mirror what I see outside.  Beautiful greens, yellows and a hint of blue.  Silver capped grey clouds.  Just a perfect reflection of my environment wrapped around a hook. 

I've always liked this pattern.  In fact, I like just about any tinsel bodied fly. I have a feeling that my spin fishing beginnings have taken root deep inside of me, and the lure of flashing metal in the water is as hypnotic to me as it is the fish.  Regardless, I know that flashy metal catches fish, and  that's what this fly was tied to do.
 As far as the pattern goes, its a Silver Grey (or maybe a Silver Gray, depending on what you were taught in school).  I'm not sure what great salmon fly author's pattern it most represents.  These days when I tie classics, I pretty much go by memory.  I know most varieties of this pattern have got a  silver body, widgeon throat, distinctive silver badger hackle and some form of yellow and green swan in the wing.  The rest is just my whim, which suits me (and the fish) just fine.