Switching away from braid is probably a good idea, but maybe you're just
not finding the fish. You said your pool was 10' but how deep are you
fishing? If your trying to DS in 10' of water straight down, you're
probably not going to get hit allot. You can drop shot shallow, but you
need to cast like you're throwing a Carolina rig or something.
My very limited experience with the DS tells me that it seems to work
when the fish are just out of sight below you. At Lake George I could see
down 15 to 25 feet depending on where in the lake I was and most of the 100
or so fish I got on the DS came in about 28 to 35 feet of water, just out of
sight and right under my boat. The whole time I used a 6'6" medium action
spinning combo with 10lb P-Line floroclear (copolymer mono/floro) line.
I've caught a few casting the drop shot from shore and working it in
relatively shallow water like 10 feet or less. I tried applying what I
learned at Lake George back home here in NJ and I found that I don't know
where the fish are. There are a few good lakes by me that the DS would work
well in but now I have to find the spots on the spots. And that can take
some work on sizable "electric only" lakes. Lake George is the cure for the
bad fisherman. They practically jump in your boat up there. Here in NJ
it's a different story.

Rich P