I have so much more i could say and tell yall about the crap they told me on the phone that would make everyone of yall fighting mad but like I said i talked to them for 3 hours so I tried to keep it short and sweet. JP if you need some gps coordinates call me ill send you a screen shot of the area on google maps, navionics, and his longitude and latitude. pm sent with my info.

 

AGREED WITH RELENTLESS NO GUN SHOTS AT US EITHER BUT WERE HARASSED WITH THE SAME GREEN LASER!! KINDA NERVE RACKING WITH A LASER HITTING THE SIDE OF YOUR BOAT AND NOT KNOWING WHAT IS MOUNTED TO THE LASER!!

 

Same green laser made it onto 2 of our bodies while running down the lake around 3:15 a.m. It was an awefully uneasy feeling not knowing what the lazer was attatched to!

 

This sounds like the same guy who shot at the Iowa team, nearest house was 1/4 mile away, like he was camping in the woods or something. After reading all the threads, I have raised the number of people shot at to 5-10 with at least two different shooters/locations. Its hard to tell without starting a new thread since Im sure some of the stories are repeats.

 

We didnt get shot at or bothered at all . Im guessing my team spent close to a 1000.00 at this tourny.

 

yeah...the circle on plain was us getting out of there after the gun went off. Was this the guy on the 4-wheeler?

 

The whole problem I see with this situation is perspective, I understand these people being upset with the lights and noises but they all chose to live on a public lake and enjoy the benefits that come from such. What they don't understand is its public and played for by taxpayers and they have no more rights than anyone else just because they live near this lake or any lake. They were inconvenienced one week out of the year by bowfishers, but that gives no-one the right to shoot at or threaten us.when I go to a public lake I don't want to look at boat docks.and houses, I don't want to.see trees cut below the blue line in order to improve someone's view, I don't want grass cut below the blue line on OUR lake for the homeowners benefit. The way I see it is they take.a lot of liberties that I don't agree with but everyone looks the other way, may be they should be grateful for.that and not call attention to.stuff like this before some of.the above mentioned liberties are taken from them. What if I.parked.my boat in their private Marina on a public lake, they wouldn't like it but what gives them the right to stop me it's on public water and there for should probably be public. What's good for the goose is good for the gander

 

These people that r so upset should try living or workin in pigeon forge or gatlinburg tn. Lived here my whole life. Car shows April through October every weekend cars are loud as hell and traffic sucks like you can't imagine. Do I like dealing with the shows? Hell no...do i like the fact that I have a job and my town is thriving because of these car shows and other tourists comin to my town to spend money? Hell yes...these people that live on this lake really need to step back and look at the big picture. There are a lot of towns out there that can barely keep the lights on at the court house and people out there that are willing to put in hard days work but there are no jobs around them to be had. There are a lot of places and people around this country that are really hurting financially that would love to see their community get the financial shot in the arm this type of event gave but I guess if these people can afford to live on this lake there probably ok and that's all that matters to them as long as no one else uses "their" lake.

 

Sorry that last part wasn't a shot at all people who live on the water. Reading this and thinking about how stupid and selfish some people are just really pi--ed me off!

 

Which Iowa Team was shot at?

 

Ill say one dam thing i couldn't make it this year but of its at the same lake next year ill damn sure make it a point not to go!

 

If i do go i'll be taking the AR in the boat for personal protection

 

Aaron your going next year we will bring that guy to the weigh in.

 

If u have a tournment of that size and quantity of boats that showed up on a high populated lake there will always be a controversy on the noise and lights coming from any Bowfishing boat

 

That is true, but if several people get shot at it doesn't take long before someone is accidently shot. You hear on here about 2 times a year or so people getting shot at. This was one night of that happening in a high concentration. In my oppinion if that happened this many times and was reported but police offered nothing what so ever and nest year those some people are going to be there shooting again than y'all can have this damn lake and ill stay here. What's to say this guy isn't eating breakfast in the resteraunt down the road telling people "we'll if you're mad jus shoot at em, what's that oh no the cops don't do anything" next year you have all the people that were mad about the noise shooing "warning" shots thinking no one will get in trouble and someone will get hurt. Best way for me to avoid being shot at and having go shoot back to protect my self then go through all kinds of legal crap is to not be there plain and simple. So guess what, wont be there.

 

I read two articles about the tournament on the internet one had a homeowner saying they came in "my" slough and the other one had a homeowner that said we don't want boats like this in "our" waters.

That is a problem.

 

I noticed that...lady said ,"Our Channel",in one.........:laugh:Least we dont get shot at out here in Nutland!

 

I was the Iowa Team that got shot at, We did not call the cops right off the bat based on simply wanting to get outta there as quick as possible. After taking a while to clear our heads we decided to keep fishing ( away from that area) and deal with it in the morning. All those talks with the law would have pretty much put us out of the tournament. We did however call a few other teams we knew were in the area and warn them to stay away from that spot.
We have never had a situation like that around here so we werent really positive how to deal with it. Also because the shots came from the woods no where near a house it woulda been tough to find the shooter.

I almost never mentioned it on the forums because I had so much fun otherwise at this tournament. I think that tablerock is a great lake and am praying that we can help JP keep the tournament down there!

 

Well glad you are alright. Hopefully this doesn't happen @ the Boji shoot!!!

I imagine if it would've been poorboys or shallow water investigators I would've read about it on FB.

 

need to take a air boat to some of these areas while you take a police officer bowfishing to show them our sport see if anything happens. For better outdoors take a kid hunting & fishing it's our future. Randy

 

What I was thinking

 

To answer the question about filing a police report. I talked to every one that would listen to me up there. Only time anyone said anything about it was the dispatch and he told me i would have to pick the guy from a line up and make a return trip to a court date, plus he told me that the prosecutor probably wouldn't take action anyway.

 

maybe we should have done more after we got shot at (ie police report) but i found it humorous that the guy was threatening us via his 4-wheeler and 22 long rifle....i just gave him a wave, a smile, and an ear full of 550 hp....

 

Thats a great way to solve the problem. Stupid comment. And how do you know it was a .22? If it was a .223 or something that bullet can go a long ways...
The thing that ticks me off is that bullet has to come down somewhere. Whats to say this guy isnt going to kill a kid 2 miles away?

 

i see what needs to be done is all competitors need to fish out of a pirogue holding a candle over the water,lol.it feels good to be retired...

 

I trusted the wrong fart, fished underwareless for the remander of the tourney. Thats the biggest issue I had!

 

:laugh:

 

1st- I am glad that no one was hurt..
2nd- my boat had 2 police officers and a LTCH on the deck it would not have ended well for anyone threatening us with deadly force
3rd- as a police officer I appoligize for the lack of response from the local law enforcement
- hunter/fisher harassment is Illegal in IN and I would hope the same in MO if not, then that needs to be addressed ASAP, but this goes WAY BEYOND harassment
we had a 4 yr old boy holding a spotlight for his dad shot and killed with a .22cal rifle 2+ years ago so this is not something that I take lightly. If you wanna yell, scream and act a fool that is one thing...threaten the lives of me or my team (GOD forbid a kid tagging along) and you no longer deserve to take in O2 with the rest of mankind.

this really bothers me that nothing more was done about this other than punishing us by "REDZONING" the area. that is a knee jerk reaction and was lousy to even consider that as a resolution. and for an officer/dispatcher to give someone the runabout with a shots fired/brandishing a weapons call is :cen:INSANITY!:headbang:
JP and Mike as the directors of the tournament I am glad to see that you are trying to find a resolution but I hope this does not get washed off the deck

 

Pretty crazy to read all this..... I guess we were lucky to shoot out 29 SMALL CARP and 1 gar and not get shot at!!!!! Although, the rules stated that the awards ceremony and boat giveaway would start at 10:30......so we slept in our truck until 9:30 , only to walk upon the crowd as they had the field narrowed down to 5 people for the boat and we missed the top 20 pay outs!!!!!!! Not that we placed in the top 20, but sucked that they moved the ceremony up.....but i guess I dont blame them getting it over with so guys could go get some shut eye!!!! 20 hr drive later, we finally got some!!!

 

Team Get Nocked Up also took a nap thinking that the ceremony started up at 10:30, showed up with all the boats leaving. Oh well.....:cf:

 

BTW HAD A GREAT TIME!!!!! WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!!

 

Hey MUSKRAT while you guys were sleeping you missed your shot at the longest drive award. They called for your team but when nobody answered they gave it to a team from Wisconsin instead.

 

They should have shipped it to us!

 

im mounting a semi auto 22. under the walk arounds from here on out we already carry side arms, this is terrible i hate that my home state was responsible for this crap

 

I think I was robbed.
I was yelling SC but my voice was about gone!!
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I-20 W to US-65 S
15 hrs 30 mins / 915.56 miles
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