M. -  Pearl is one of the lures you tie on when you don't want to worry about what you got tied on. It works well in a variety of conditions, but my absolute favorite is fishing shallow, clear water on gloomy, overcast days. The day I fooled my first 30" trout was a picture perfect example, heavily overcast, misting and cold with a light north breeze steadily rolling in. We were fishing knee deep grass with scattered oysters, I was throwing Pearl on an Owner 1/16oz screw lock jighead with a 1/0 hook, bringing it in with a steady "twitch-twitch-pause" when my line tightened up and I yanked back into the brick wall that was this gator, she immediately surfaced and showed me exactly what was 'on the line' during that fight, we snapped a few pictures and she swam off clean!

This trout was caught in similar weather as the first one on this page, heavily overcast, light breeze, misting rain. This time we were even shallower though, less than knee deep and walking over solid oysters. I was working it quickly to keep it off the shells and after 6 or 7 rat reds my Pearl got hammered, line went limp, and I reeled down and set the hook into something ..different, that ended up being a massive trout that was pushing 9lbs! She put up a crazy fight with tons of head shakes, and was released still angry. Basically what I'm trying to say, is if you gave me a choice of 2 colors to throw on a gloomy day, I'd pick Pearl twice.