Early morning on a local creek in spring is always a great time to be on the water. Broughton Creek is a tributary of the Shoalhaven River and runs up well past the trendy town of Berry on the NSW south coast. Greg Stevens and I had launched his TABS 460 near the entrance of Broughton and planned to fish the top of a run in tide and then the run out. The target was bream, estuary perch and bass and we both had our proven plastics tied on. I had a Hurricane 75mm Sprat in gold on a 1/20th ounce head and Greg had a Powerbait 3” Minnow in Motor Oil on a 1/16th ounce head. After fifteen minutes things were looking good. The tide was gently running in, the water was a good colour and 18 degrees. The barometer was sitting at 1020 and we had a bit of cloud cover. The only thing we didn’t have was a follow or a hook up.
As we approached a great looking snag, Greg decided to change lures based on
