Nice respotted sunnies 😁 Glad you found my info useful and caught that first one.
Your struggle question happens to me all the time. For example the first time I was fishing one of the large ponds in Mingo it took me 40 to 45 mins to hook and land my first ever starhead topminnow even with a tanago hook 🙄. Most of that time was figuring out that they were different and then not spooking them and then get them to bite. Next trip was easy peasy as our buddy @Ham would say. No problem catching as many as I would want. How many did he catch yesterday?