Unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes (Fishlake/Thousand Lakes)
Utah Hunting Guide — Black Bear
Unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes lies in Emery, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Black Bear Hunting in Unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes
Unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes lies in Emery, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties. UDWR publishes no per-unit black bear success figure we can verify for this unit. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Black Bear in Unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes
UDWR draws an exact line around unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes and says nothing about where the black bear stand inside it. The country below is verified; where to begin in it is our judgement, not the agency's. The unit lies in Emery, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties.
The lines of the unit: Rock Springs, Willow Springs and Windy Peak
UDWR draws unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes in Emery, Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties with a boundary that runs on I-70, and on Rock Springs, Willow Springs and Windy Peak, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.
High ground inside the line: Mount Marvine, Whiskey Knoll and Mount Terrill
Named high points inside the unit include Mount Marvine at 11,605 feet, Whiskey Knoll at 11,530 feet, Mount Terrill at 11,528 feet, Hilgard Mountain at 11,518 feet and Flat Top at 11,289 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Bears follow food, which in early autumn means oakbrush, chokecherry and serviceberry on south slopes.
Holding ground: Sevenmile Cirques, U M Yogo Saddle and Bull Run Flat
Below them sit Sevenmile Cirques at 10,430 feet, U M Yogo Saddle at 10,413 feet, Bull Run Flat at 10,284 feet, Rock Canyon at 10,266 feet and Wiffs Pasture at 10,255 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Two you can watch from a single knob is worth more than five you have to drive between.
Water: Torgerson Spring, Gahew Spring and Teeples Spring
Named sources include Torgerson Spring, Gahew Spring, Teeples Spring, Praetor Spring, Bronco Spring and Potter Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
Before you apply: who owns this unit
A UDWR permit does not authorise hunting on Native American trust lands, on a CWMU without that CWMU's own permit, or on National Park land, and written permission is required to hunt private land.
Unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Mount Marvine (11,605 ft), Whiskey Knoll (11,530 ft), Mount Terrill (11,528 ft), Hilgard Mountain (11,518 ft)
Holding ground: Fish Lake Hightop Plateau (11,435 ft), U M Plateau (10,640 ft), Na-Gah Flat (10,575 ft), Torgerson Spring, Bronco Spring
Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.
How to Hunt Black Bear in Unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes
Black Bear Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no black bear row for unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. UDWR's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.
Black Bear Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry either sex (resident) | 2 | 69 | 2.9% | 17 |
Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2024 draw recap for black bear in unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Rifle, Limited Entry, Either Sex, resident: 57 applicants for 7 licences, 12.3% drawn, 14 bonus points needed
Utah draws on bonus points in a weighted random draw, not in point order, so the figure above is what it happened to take that year rather than a threshold you can plan to reach. More points buy more chances, never a turn. These are the figures as published in UDWR's own draw recap; we have not yet checked them back against the agency row by row, so confirm the hunt you mean to apply for before you count on a number.
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- UDWR Hunt Boundaries — boundary descriptions from the Hunt Planner boundary layer — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, UDWR's private-land note for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
- UDWR DWR_Hunt_Boundaries_combined feature service — all 687 published hunt boundaries, including the CWMUs — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-24