Stephen Vletas

After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1977, Vletas left the city life (and the traffic and smog) for the mountains and skiing of Jackson Hole. And since you can’t ski too much in the summer, fly-fishing was a natural that turned into a passion and a profession. Writing, well, that’s also a passion, and something you can do anywhere. Vletas prefers working in the morning, though on a powder day, he’s flexible. Flexibility and adaptability are the keys to most things, Vletas believes, and he has followed that approach through endeavors around the world.

Vletas is the author of The Bahamas Fly-Fishing Guide (Lyons Press), and has written six editions of the Fodor’s Gold Guide Bahamas. He has also published numerous articles in national and international magazines on subjects ranging from finance and real estate to fly-fishing in salt water and wine tours in South America. Vletas wrote a weekly film review column for six years for the Jackson Hole News. A fly-fishing and powder skiing junkie, Vletas balances his time between homes in Jackson Hole, and Mendoza, Argentina. He speaks fluent Spanish.

He is at work on a new novel; La Morocha, an epic love story/financial and political thriller set against Argentina’s Corralito, the financial crash of 2002. And coming soon: An updated Kindle edition of The Bahamas Fly-Fishing Guide.