Will post more details when I hear them. As of now I know it was someone fishing a 90 boats tournament on lake oconee yesterday. Was up lake around oconee river mouth(where i would have been alot of times)....He went by at considerable speed and some homeowner got mad ...Angler fished back down bank to dock and the guy runs out to dock shooting and  grazes his shoulder with a .22 rifle....It didnt take much to win, I am guessing he caught his fish before the incident.... Will post more or edit story when I hear more... Heard alll this this monring on the phone...i am still shocked...

Wow thats terrible that that happened.

Did you find out the whole story yet?

UPDATE.....UPDATE

Heard today, It was the partner of who i figured it was....hopefully they will stay out of "my river"....But anyway 80 something year old land owner got mad about them not idling by his property and started yelling,(no reason)When they came back down river under power, he shot the driver of the boati n the the arm with .22 rifle.Man said he was shooting at a snake... They still weighed in and won a good 1st place check.. Dont know about charges or what not....

Some of the older people on rivers around here are  a little ignorant of the water laws.....I had a confrontation on another river, a homeowner thought the no wake zone applied to the whole river and not just the boat ramp....something i asked LEO about and he said that man had tried to make citizens arrest about it : :

He man blamed me for his jon boat sinkin, it was covered with slime and threatened to use a pistol on me if i didnt stay there while he called DNR.....I hauled Arse....

I was fishing a tourny in NH.found some nice cover to fish off a point,started fishing when a man ran out of his house yelling at us ,he then dove in the water over the rocks and tried to board my boat,saying he ownd this area and we were tresspassing,I ended up kicking him in the head to get him off my boat.we then left the area and continude fishing.Some people are just ignorant.

Newspaper story: Athens Banner Hearld

Two men competing in a bass tournament Saturday on the Oconee River got a rude surprise when a man on the bank shot one of them, apparently trying to warn them away from his own lines, according to Greene County Sheriff Chris Houston.

The men had headed upriver about noon when they noticed a fishing camp on the bank and saw an elderly man wearing overalls, standing at the riverside.

The elderly Madison man raised a rifle and fired two shots, which hit the water in front of the boat, the men told a Greene County sheriff's deputy. The elderly man fired a third shot, which hit one of the men in the boat - identified as Craig Barnett of Sycamore - under his left arm, according to a sheriff's department report.

After the shots rang out, the men sped up and headed toward an area known as Dyar's Pasture, where they found cell phone service and could call 911.

Barnett "showed me a dime- sized hole under his left arm and handed me a small-caliber bullet that he stated came out of the hole," a sheriff's deputy wrote in a report.

The .22-caliber bullet was taken into evidence.

Houston said the shore fisherman - identified as John Burke Yearwood, 86, of Madison - has put out fishing lines in the area for decades.

"He was just trying to warn (them) away from the fishing lines," Houston said Tuesday.

Investigators found Yearwood at his home. Before he was arrested, Yearwood told investigators he had a rifle and had been at the river camp Saturday, according to the report.

Yearwood was booked into the Greene County Jail on an aggravated assault charge. Barnett's wound wasn't life-threatening, authorities said.

The state Department of Natural Resources helped with the investigation.

I hope the guy gets life in prison (whats left of it). If he did this to me, he'd be lucky to have a home by the morning.

How stupid some people are to start fights with complete strangers that know where they live.

Aggravated assault is a class B felony in most states.

That is serious stuff.

I don't much about rural Georgia, but I can't imagine a judge letting anyone, even an 86 yearl old man go without some jail time for shooting someone because you thought they were interefering with your fishng.

As far as the lawsuit goes,  well I think some old man just lost his house on the lake.

Sounds alot like the incident where Gary Klein was shot at while competing on the Delta in the Bassmasters Classic.

Remember the details?

Guy comes out and takes a shot (w/ shotgun) at Gary as he goes by. On return trip Gary has his ESPN camera man run tape and they get the guy on tape waving as if nothing ever happened.

The old guy was charged by local authorities.

Charges were dismissed by the local District Attorney. Word was that this D.A. also had a duck camp near the suspects.....

That is incredible!I've had stuff thrown at me but never shot at.

That kind of stuff is just crazy. A few years ago, a friend of mine and I put our boat in at about 2:00 AM for some night time catfishing. There was a guy at the ramp with his wife and young son just coming in and the woman was almost hysterical. To get to the main river (Potomac), you had to go under an aqueduct and the guy said there were a couple drunks on the aqueduct throwing stuff at them as they went under it. We pulled out and went under the aqueduct and they threw what must have been a hell of a big log, just missing the boat. If it had hit one of us, it could have done some serious damage. If I'd had a gun with me I would have been tempted to use it, I should have shot my emergency flares at them! It's too bad I didn't have a cell phone at the time, 911 would have gotten a call.