Silas Whitfield

Silas Whitfield is a retired shop teacher and longtime church deacon who has fished his own pond and the creeks of rural Eastern North Carolina for most of his seventy years. What he knows about reading the water — the moon, the weather, the signs his father and grandfather passed down — he learned the old way: by paying attention, season after season.

He writes practical beginner guides for anyone who fishes, or wants to, from the bank, a dock, or a small pond — not tournament anglers, not gearheads. Just the plain things that put a mess of bluegill in the pan.

Silas lives on a few cared-for acres with his wife Audra, a stocked pond, and grandkids who are learning to read the signs the same way he did.