At the bottom of your line add a barrel swivel. Take a 8 or 9 inch piece of "scrap" line, smaller in test than your main line.
Put the scrap line through the swivel and fold it in half. Add split shot or your normal weight to the scarp line.
This rig works just like your "normal" drop shot rig, but if the weight gets stuck, it slips off the scrap line or the smaller test line breaks before your main line. In either case you don't lose your hook or plastic lure/jig/
Try the same setup with a dropper loop/ 6 or 8 inch leader tied up from the weight, attach bait/ lure/jig to leader with floating jig head.
You can also add some flash to your line by tying silver colored flash to the line,
We used this setup in New Jersey years ago.