Scot and I have been trying to get some drowns but we only have 4-5 in the past hour.

Can anyone help?

Lure zombies into the water. After 30s of being underwater they will convert to drowned.

Yeah trident farming is difficult

And eBay. That won't let you farm tridents. I used a zombie spawner to make drowned. No tridents after an hour

I've looked into the Drowned spawn rates, and it looks like a combination of Spigot and Minecraft 1.13 bugs so unfortunately there isn't much I can do about it right now. It's on the list of bugs to squash though!

1.13.1 snapshots have mob optimization improvements, so stay tuned

Also Tridents only can be farmed from "Natural" Drowned. sucks But that's the way it happens. best Farm is to build a Nitwit at bottom of ocean, and Bubble column the Drowned up to a killing chamber