Dropshot weight idea

If you’re dropshot fishing on a very rocky bottom, here’s an idea that’s helped us.  After losing a lot of both round and cylinder weights fishing on the deep edge of a blasted limestone breakwater, a friend came up with the idea to use these soft lead pencil weights.  Bent like a piece of macaroni, the shape gets snagged in the rocks less often and, when it does, will usually just straighten out and pull free (I’ve been tying our weights on with a double overhand knot - weaker than the knots above, but not so weak that the weights slip off with every snag).