Former Flyfishing Team USA captain Anthony Naranja stands accused of scamming angling competitors out of tens of thousands of dollars. Naranja’s Professional Fly Angling Tour (PFA) is a competition flyfishing league with, according to its site, “benefits of financial reward.” Problem is the checks are bouncing.

Angler Cody Burgdorff paid $12,000 for a three-year “contract” with the league. Last year he won the PFA championship, which should have came with a total payout of $20,000.

Burgdorff told The Denver Channel that payments from Naranja stopped after two months. “He basically disappeared. Wouldn’t answer emails, Facebook posts, calls. He owes me $19,000,” Burgdorff said.

The PFA lists more than 20 flyfishing members on its site, which promises the opportunity “To get paid for what you love to do while inspiring others to get outdoors and take care of the environment… It’s cool. It’s fun. It’s awesome!”

So far the 2016 tour schedule has not been announced.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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