"I was thinking about midge and chironomid patterns one day and it hit me that there are a lot of great patterns, but they are all constrained to follow the shape of the hook and are therefore all the same in this regard.
Chironomids have a lot of movement and different shape profiles as they rise to the surface - could “smart” fish become accustomed to the static shape of our flies and pass them by for the naturals? I suspect these refusals happen more than we realize - they just aren’t as easy to see as a dry fly rejection.
The Livewire is my attempt to show the fish a unique and realistic pattern to cut down on those subsurface refusals.
The body can be shaped and reshaped to suggest movement and different silhouettes."
- Signature Tyer Michael Benedik
