fishing blind?

Not sure if this should be under "fish stories" or here - but it is a story
a friend told me yesterday, about bream fishing. Wanted to know if any
of you had ever heard of / seen / done this? The story goes, they were
fishing from the bank in a clear, shallow pond. Came up on a huge bed of
shellcrackers, but no matter what bait they tried, or how low and quiet they
approached, the fish just wouldn't bite. So the old man my friend was fishing
with, pulls out his pocketknife and cuts a bunch of willow limbs, sticking them
in the ground in front of them, kind of a ground blind like you were hunting.
Said after sitting quiet behind it for a good while, they flipped a cricket out,
and BANG! got bit. Said they sat there behind their blind and caught 90 something. :) Made a heck of a fish story anyway!

the only thing I know is that bream can see you in shallow water and feel the vibrations from walking in the boat or on the bottom. I try and always approach a bedding area from the shadows not from the sun.

Very possible story. There are places at deep gin clear strip mines where you better not walk up to the edge and profile yourself and expect to get any interest from the larger fish there. I've crawled up to a pond during bedding to avoid spooking fish. Mike

Never heard that one Jeff,but hay if it works try it

Sounds reasonable. I've had a similar experience.
Fished a pond filled with large bluegill/redear with my grandfather while growing up. Water was shallow and very clear. We would sneak in really quiet and sit behind willow trees for 10 minutes or so before fishing. If we stayed hidden the biting was good. If we got out in the open or stood up by the tree, the fish would move out a litte further in the water and would not bite.

Boy When I Got Up This Mornin I Did,nt Expect To Learn This Much--
I,ll Keep This In Mind///// Unless I Forget It---haha

I did this about 5 years ago. Only time its ever happened with me. I was fishing is a MS river oxbow. The river had been falling so the water on the upper end of the lake was real clear. I was fishing along in about 5 ft water about 15 ft out from the bank on the edge of a brush line. I could see 8-9 big bream just sitting there suspended in the water at the edge of the bush, there were not bedding. Well ,I was sure they would see me in the boat and take off but they didn't . I flipped a cricket out and one edged up to it looked it over for a good minute and them gulped it down. I sat there and caught 7 of them. I could see ever one when they took the cricket.