Hey Old Man: No,No,NO. File those weighted chironomids for streamfishing. The only weight you need for LAKE chironomids is the hook itself. Wrap thin bodies with just a slight taper from back to front and a peacock thorax. I like a white pearlescent seed bead head, but tie some with small gold and small tungsten beads too w/a Z-lon lung ahead of the bead. In many waters black with a white rib is good. I use white everglow ribbing from Creative Angler in Kirkland.....good stuff in murky lake waters.Tie sizes from 10 down to 18. I tie some with wingcases of matching colors from goose feather, but they get chewed up and raggedy pretty fast. You have to watch them after each fish and trim off any stray fibres. If you got black,grey,brown,and green you'll have a match for 99% of the hatches.