Casting Shadows

Casting Shadows

by Johnny Ray White

In the misty hollows and clear, cold rivers of West Virginia, there’s more to fishing than catching fish. In Casting Shadows, Johnny Ray White reflects on a lifetime spent along these mountain streams—learning, losing, laughing, and listening to what the water has to say.

Each story flows like a tributary into something larger: lessons about patience, humility, faith, and the quiet places where the spirit and the current meet. From the Elk to the Williams River, White finds meaning in every ripple and revelation in every rise. His tales aren’t just about trout—they’re about time, memory, and the unseen connections that bind us to the land, to one another, and to God.

Told with the same easy humor and plainspoken honesty that define Appalachian storytelling, Casting Shadows is both a love letter to West Virginia’s waters and a meditation on what it means to live deliberately. Readers will find themselves wading not only into rivers but into something deeper—an understanding that, like a good cast, faith and purpose require practice, patience, and the willingness to stand still in the current.