The Grizzly King was a pattern by Professor James Wilson, brother of John Wilson [creator of the Professor fly]. In Rod and Gun, 1840, he describes his fly as:

            "The Grizzly King is a hackle par excellence. They call him Coomberland in the northern parts of merry England. His wings are broad and burly, formed of any undyed feather, bearing narrow natural bars of black and white, and he bristles with many stripes from head to heel, his dark green body being wound about with gray or mottled hackle, and terminated by a fiery tail, turned up in what naturalists call an ensiform manner - that is, somewhat after the fashion of a sword."

            "What seems his head,

            The likeness of a kingly crown has on."

    It is believed to have been tied in imitation of the dark green drake.

From: Fly Anglers