Keith Poche Statement on FB regarding incident at Toho

Post by **WB Staff** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:22 am

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Post by **WB Staff** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:33 am

Ish Monroe's statement: http://www.westernbass.com/forum/ish-mo ... 93162.html

Stratos278 · Post by **Stratos278** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:08 pm

Poche also released a statement to the media on this incident. It can be viewed at www.BassFan.com. A little more depth than his Facebook statement

Roscoe · Post by **Roscoe** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:48 pm

I'm sorry bumping your head and drowning? Shouldn't you be wearing a life jacket and you think other anglers would just sit there and watch you drown? What happened is a little bit of competitive nature, ish was waiting there for the lock and poche came in there knowing how the wind was blowing and how the current was moving but if he didn't then how he make it as an elite? I'm 100% understanding of beign concerned about the wife and daughter, but to "ACCIDENTLY" run into ish then get pushed and then go press charges? Maybe next time when it's windy and moving current dont go full steam ahead into a area packed full of boats, just sayin. Poche seems like a cool guy but it surprises me but a lot of others ive talked to that a man would go press charges. Can you imagine if he played a physical sport, there wouldn't be anyone left they'd all be in jail. Junior Seau played a whole season with 4 broken ribs. I'm sorry fellow WB readers I just don't know why it had to go this far to possibly have someone lose a lot for someone's elses stupid mistake.

SacRtrain · Post by **SacRtrain** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:17 pm

Ish handled it like an *** and Poche is a puss. They both lost respect.

Paul Matthews · Post by **Paul Matthews** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:00 am

Both are wrong. However I lost a lot of respect for Poche. Talk about a whiny response. Just man up. AS for Ish, well Ish is Ish and sooner or later his temper got him in hot water. Ban them both for a year and send a strong message. That goes for Ike and his foul mouth too. Time to clean it up. After all this isn't the NHL.

bassrman · Post by **bassrman** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:38 am

I think they should go the way of Kevin Langill' and get suspended for the rest of the season Opens & Elites !..

elfish16 · Post by **elfish16** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:07 am

at no time and place is fighting or physical confrontations OK in a tournament. I think it's a joke someone would JUMP into someone else's boat and put hands on a person... if you have beef handle it later somewhere else. Don't put other's days in shambles because you are mad... suck it up and man up and handle it later.

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:20 am

elfish16 wrote:at no time and place is fighting or physical confrontations OK in a tournament. I think it's a joke someone would JUMP into someone else's boat and put hands on a person... if you have beef handle it later somewhere else. Don't put other's days in shambles because you are mad... suck it up and man up and handle it later.

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fish_food · Post by **fish_food** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:31 am

Interesting write up by Randall Tharp on the chaotic locking procedure during that event:

"Because the lock is what apparently caused the disagreement, I do feel that I am in a good position to talk about that issue generally. On both Thursday and Friday, I locked up and down from Toho. That particular lock will hold 13 to 15 boats, and that is exactly what was waiting each time I went up or down. It wasn’t unusually crowded. Nevertheless, each of the four times I went through the lock, I witnessed collisions between boats, rub rails torn off and outboard cowlings busted by unnecessary impacts. There was extensive cursing and arguments. The bottom line is that there was a total disregard for each other’s safety and each other’s equipment. There was certainly nothing professional about that. Some of the guys I knew and some of them I didn’t. Some were calm and courteous and others were nervous wrecks. I still don’t understand exactly what is going through some of these guys’ heads throughout what should be a very simple process.

This is how it should work: The doors open and the first boat, the one that has been waiting the longest, goes in first all the way to the front. Then the second and so on until the lock is full. No one gave me a lesson on locking. This is about as basic an exercise in common sense and courtesy as you could get anywhere. I’d expect the average first-grader to be able to figure it out.

Despite the simplicity of the process, it rarely occurs that way. This week was particularly bad. It didn't matter if you were waiting the longest or just pulling up as the doors opened. It was a no-holds-barred, get-to-the-front-at-any-cost cluster, all four times I went through that lock. Trying to enter in turn or in any order was pointless. Three boats trying to go through an opening only wide enough for two. Boats driving over other boats. Boats were turned sideways, and brand-new $80,000 rigs and boat wraps were damaged. I’m disappointed in my performance in the tournament, but I am really thankful that I survived and my boat only has a few scratches.

Professionals? REALLY?

It is all stupid. No one gained anything by what happened in that lock. It only hurt us all. It cost us valuable fishing time and damaged our equipment that we have to use the rest of the year. All of the cursing and fighting also shed the wrong light on a sport that I love. There is nothing professional about the win-at-any-cost attitude that is becoming more and more prevalent in the sport these days.

I have to say that I think it is ironic that my good friend and competitor, Chad Morgenthaler, won the derby fishing on Toho. He never even went through the lock that people were fighting to go through. Congratulations, Chad! Well-deserved. You earned my respect and that of a lot of other competitors. Professional? No doubt!"

http://www.bassmaster.com/blog/tharp-to ... g.comments