I'm not too sure about inchworms but I have seen guys scoff at the idea of using those pink power worms for steelhead. I on the other hand don't scoff at the idea because there's a reason why in the early spring when I steelhead fish my rod always seems to stay bent because of those worms. I think the same thing applies with inchworms. It's one of those things that looks kind of dumb in appearance but to be honest with you, some of my best trout flies look so stupid that one would never think a trout would eat them, yet they do and willingly. I think I'll have to take your advice though and tie a few up.

Just spent the weekend in the Great Smoky Mtn. NP and crushed 'em on the green weenie. I was drifting it through runs below a big, bushy Thunderhead. They crushed it, usually til mid-late afternoon when they started looking up. I fished it down, not sure how it would have worked all Frog's Fannied up and on top.

There were catepillars all over our tent on Sunday morning. I through one in the Little River (we were camping right on it) and it floated down for about 20 feet before being crushed. Immediately cut the tail off of a crystal flash black wooly bugger, hit it with some Fanny, and drifted it over the same run. Missed a great take and couldn't get him to go again. Not sure why a size 18 BWO is so much classier to us, the fish certainly don't care.

Again, Sayfu knows for a fact that I've never experienced that because he knows all, especially when it comes to me.

I tie inchworm patterns using material from a green synthetic duster.

They're made from polypropylene, which both repels and is lighter than water, so it floats.

A buck for a duster at the dollar store buys a lifetime supply of materials.

Shane..Watch a seam of small mayflies float by on a favorite river, and watch trout line up, and sip them on the surface. Then you make a good cast with one of the lt. fragile looking, but well tied, classic mayfly patterns shown in these posts, and a big head comes up, and takes your classic, sailboat winged creation...lots of class, and quite a thrill to a dry fly fisherman. Hope you experience it some day.

for now...lol i'll have to hit these up

Pattern:
3/0 thead in brown for segmentation look.
body, thorax, head, entire enchelata...dyed yellow deer hair.
Lay it over the hook, palmer wrap the thread up through the deer hair, secure off, and trim both ends.
Make sure you lay a good thread base on the hook back to above the hook point, or the deer hair will slip. I would pull up the deer hair at the eye, and tie off onto the hook. Use a brown, Pantone pen if you want a head look on your worm.

Pattern: Dyed yellow, deer body hair that will have air in the hair. Tie in clump of yellow died deer hair at the hook barb, lift up hair, move thread on the shank to where the next segmentation you want using brown 3/0 thread, Move thread under on the shank to the next segment, and so on to the head. lift hair, tie off head on the hook shank behind the eye, trim hair. You can use a brown, Pantone pen to color a head. Deer hair is easily broken by fish teeth. A thin coating of Dave's Flex Cement strengthens the hair.

Sounds like a very good observation on your part. You look for the banks where they would be falling, and your matching the inch worm well with that dyed deer hair fly it appears to be. What's happening in your yard is often happening near the river. I get the big Yellow May, the Hex Mayfly on the side of my house around the 4th of July. They get blown off the Snake River, and when I see it the hatch is on...and an after dark happening, but we have lights in town where I can fish them. Hoppers is another bug I find in my yard come Aug. and expect them to be around on the river.