Another factor to remember, once the rock have moved a little, there is a water cushion, that makes moving the rock easier.
as for crabs putting up a fight, only the really big ones, the other gets sucked in so quickly, before the crab knows what is happening, it is in very dark deep black cramped space. On a trip drifting the Breede, I saw how a SM Bass regurgutated 5 or 7 crabs, trying to get rid of a fly it had swallowed in the rapids.
The old folks, I am talking about my grand father's generation, they believed the best way to catch the "Stroom geelvis" as the SM was called was with a single crab on a hook, with a sliding ball sinker tossed into the fast flowing water. (The Large Mouth was called the Kalwer Kop. Have a look at the head from the front top of a LM, it looks liike a small calf's head) Look at Gerrit's photos, there is one or 2 where this is visible.
Korrie Broos
Don't go knocking on Death's door, ring the bell and run like hell. He hates it. (anon)
Nymphing, adds depth to your fly fishing.
Nymphing, is fly fishing in another dimension
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