So you'd need to run a heavy leader and have the drag wound up
Straight back under the rock they slithered out from. I've been lucky, only lost a landing net from under my house. I noticed it missing a couple days after we had plumbers in doing work for Housing Commission. All my other gear was there, rods 'n' reels and tackle boxes and the like. None of that got touched.
So you'd need to run a heavy leader and have the drag wound up