Time to Experiment, Bugs coming

I caught some splake on the weekend and when I checked the stomachs they were crammed full of 1/2 inch worms/ creatures that looked like baby crayfish or freshwater shrimp . I wish I had taken a picture but they looked like some of your creations. I bet they will work.

Exactly. Packed so tight it looked like a charcoal briquette probably

any idea what those 'worms' were?

Common invertebrates

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Chironomids. Second last picture. That's what I find packed into the bellies of lakers in Algonquin in May. If you find the empty casings laying on the surface, somewhere nearby is a hatch of those things, coming off bottom, and trout will be feeding like crazy there.

That's why I think some of your hooks will work great.

The bugs in the trout I caught had those little feelers at the front. I think they were scuds as they were also segmented and in a quarter round shape. I mistook the frontal feelers for undeveloped claws.

I hope to tie a few as well.I found some wire kinking around----some sort of phone wire----with multi colors. The green is a lot brighter than the OP used but who the heck knows what's best.

maybe keep the wire hooked up and you can talk them into biting?

OK, so here is my first crude attempt at making up one of those 'wormy' hooks. I think I added too much wire---prob should have left the green off altogether. You can prob guess that I am not a fly tyer.I don't have the vise etc. I just held the hook eye with my needle nose pliers and wrapped the wire as best I could.  I know fly tyers-----my bro is one--- like to make their stuff all neat and tidy but I'm not sure if the fish  really care.
A couple of questions: (1) how do you stop the ends from coming loose? Crazy glue? (2) What's the best way to get these to sink?----they are very light. Maybe a sinker a short dist upthe line would interfere with any action?

throw a weighted bead on first up top or get some of your bro's metal/copper thread if he has and wrap the shank w it for some weight - maybe even layer it thick at eye and gape as an alternative to glue and some added flash for bonus

The farthest one to the left in the first picture on the thread has done me the best... iced me at least three Lakers end of ice season. I definitely use a heavier copper... but if you were to strip the wires, you could fit more copper and it would be heavier. I start mine by putting the tail end through the eye of the hook and using it as an anchor to achieve extremely tight wraps (roll em tight!). Then I trim it off after and don’t need any glue at all.

I tried a couple with bare copper wire. I think you can see that it's quite a fine wire. I might have a look for heavier wire. I think the thin version has 2 layers and the 'fat' one obviously has more. Not quite as neat and tidy as yours but maybe the fish don't care.

I used colored(unstripped) wire for my first 1 as I thought that might be more effective. From your experience though, maybe not!

Seems like a useless exercise for me now that we ware locked down until mid to late May.

Nick---The hooks still feel quite light. Did you use a sinker to get yours down.