The suggestion about switching to weekday outings is one that I use up here to avoid fishing pressure. There are a couple of lakes around here where summer recreational pleasure boats make weekend fishing difficult and often dangerous. It only makes common sense to avoid such places if you can.

If you are on the water, and get buzzed or waked, get the boat registration numbers and turn them in to your local water patrol or conservation officer. Wakes in a no-wake zone are a violation that the officers should be willing to handle for you.

As far as guns go, don't be stupid. In most states threatening someone with one is felonious assault, unless you have solid reason to act against prior direct threat or an actual attack, which heavy wakes are not. If you threaten someone like that, they may well have the right to stand their own ground and you end up with a prison sentence. This isn't a joking matter. There are far too many confused and gray areas that end up in tragedy for one or both sides, if you are not very careful about what you do with what you are allowed to carry.

With all due respect, those who joke about armed response to what is at most discourtesy or relatively innocent ignorance make me wonder if they shouldn't take some sort of psychological test about their fitness to carry in public. Your rights to self protection only extend to actual need not to annoyance and include no right to even threaten just because of discourtesy or somebody else's stupidity.