At 5 p.m. I started fishing this afternoon on a rising river.  Usually I do not have great luck when the river is rising but I figured the fish have to eat whatever the river is doing.  Two bit a swimbait right off the bat over an old sunken barge and after trying some other spots two more bit there, one on the swimbait and one on a worm. I caught one other one on a worm in another place and I quit at 8 p.m.. FOD was 3 1/4 and I had one other just over three.  One of the places I had good luck in the other day had so many shad in it there’s no way a fish would hit an artificial bait. Just too much of the real thing. I’m going to have to go somewhere else until the river starts to fall.