Flies for silvers. Egg snell a hook and put a piece of black or blue yarn on. Generally black. Every now and then orange. Doesn't have to be much harder than that though they hit all kinds really. Have caught a lot on some small blue/chrome trout flies quite often too.
I like that you can spot a silver in the midst of lots of other fish and sight cast a fly to them and have a good chance of enticing them, rather than blindly hauling and hoping. Elevation helps, like on the back of a boat...but its not needed.
Out in the salt I used big streamers, pink or bright green. Strip it in fast jerks while letting it sink in between and hold on.
