‘His passion was fishing’
Body of Jarrett Scholl pulled from Lake Ontario
John Scholl lost a good fishing buddy — his son Jarrett.
Jarrett’s body was discovered by fisherman Tuesday night near the rock breakwall close to the Beacon Harbourside Yacht Club in the town of Lincoln.
The 30-year-old Grimsby man had been missing since last Thursday after going going fishing early that day in his new 15-foot aluminium boat on Lake Ontario.
A passerby found the boat near Charles Daley Park in Lincoln later that day. All his equipment, including a life-jacket, was in the boat, except his fishing rod.
“His passion was fishing,” John said Wednesday morning in a telephone interview from the family home. “He’s been fishing since he was six years old. He used to go with me all the time up north fishing.”
Jarrett lived with his parents John and Marie in Grimbsy. He had an older brother, Brett. Jarrett worked for Heat and Frost Insulators Local 95, installers of mechanical insulation.
“He just had enough money to buy a brand new boat — he just got it the first of May,” John said.
Jarrett would head out fishing whenever and wherever he could, his father said. Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, the Grand River in Dunnville and a great-aunt’s cottage on Rice Lake near Peterborough were frequent destinations, John said.
“Everyday he would go out fishing.”
Father and son were planning on heading to Rice Lake for five days of fishing the Saturday before tragedy struck.
Jarrett had spent the day fishing on Lake Erie Wednesday and told his dad over dinner he was planning on trying his luck on Lake Ontario Thursday.
“He said to me at supper, ‘You want to go out to Lake Ontario early in the morning?’” John recalled.
“But I couldn’t go that day because I had to work.
“I got up at 5:30, and he was already gone.”
A post-mortem was to take place at a Hamilton hospital today.
John Scholl said funeral arrangements were still to be arranged, but expected visitation to take place on the weekend at Stonehouse-Whitcomb Funeral Home in Grimsby.