Knoll Lake Kayaking Photoset • chumley • 2016-06-04 • HikeArizona.COM

Knoll Lake Kayaking, AZ

	2016-06-04
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Knoll Lake Kayaking, AZ

Kayak	5.83 Miles	43 AEG

Kayak	5.83 Miles	1 Day 2 Hrs 51 Mns
	43 ft AEG

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Beat the heat weekend on Knoll Lake. I really do like this one! If you paddle the shoreline it's about 3 miles, plus there's the knoll to visit too.

Spotted an elk calf, looked to be a couple of weeks old. No sign of mom. :lone:

It looked weak and scared, and didn't do a whole lot of moving, though I managed to get it out of the water to see if it was stuck or injured. I was afraid it wouldn't make it through the night, but it was still there the next day. I hope mom was just waiting for the people to leave the lake after a busy weekend, but I think that's me just being optimistic.

Sunday afternoon was perfect and I spent almost two hours paddling. Only two groups were still fishing on shore, so I was able to sneak to the other side of the knoll and go for a swim. Beats 115 in the valley! :y:

Reports of 2000 rainbow and 500 browns just stocked in the past week and yet many were leaving empty handed. I was told powerbait and fishing off the bottom are the way to go here.

Some idiots decided they should leave their enormous tarp at one of the boat-access dispersed campspots (which may or may not technically be legal to begin with). So if anybody is in the market for a tarp, let me know. Otherwise I'll be disposing of it in a few days.

Fauna

Fauna [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Elk Terrestrial Gartersnake

Culture

Culture [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Informational/Interpretive Sign Trash Hauled Out

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[ checklist ] Knoll Lake

Meteorology

Meteorology [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Fire - Wildfire