Unit Plateau, Fishlake (Fishlake)
Utah Hunting Guide — Mule Deer
Unit Plateau, Fishlake lies in Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties and covers about 684 square miles. Ground runs from 5,992 to 10,448 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 20%. 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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Mule Deer Hunting in Unit Plateau, Fishlake
Unit Plateau, Fishlake lies in Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties and covers about 684 square miles. Ground runs from 5,992 to 10,448 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put mule deer success here as high as 20%. 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 Mule Deer in Unit Plateau, Fishlake
What UDWR publishes for unit Plateau, Fishlake is a boundary, not a mule deer map. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Piute, Sevier and Wayne counties. It runs to about 684 square miles.
What bounds unit Plateau, Fishlake
UDWR has unit Plateau, Fishlake Boundary begins at SR-24 and SR-72; west and north on SR-24 to I-70; east on I-70 to SR-72; south on SR-72 to SR-24. Excludes all CWMUs. It tells you the shape of the unit and nothing about its inhabitants. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.
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 Boobe Hole Mountain at 10,630 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Mule deer bed on broken ground with a view and feed on the brush below it.
Holding ground: Sevenmile Cirques, U M Yogo Saddle and Rock Canyon
Below them sit Sevenmile Cirques at 10,430 feet, U M Yogo Saddle at 10,413 feet, Rock Canyon at 10,266 feet, Daniels Pass at 10,243 feet and Neals Flat at 10,233 feet. That is the low country of the unit — the ground animals drop into when they are pushed or when the weather turns. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.
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. Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as Private / Other 100%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 5,992 feet to 10,448 feet, averaging 8,576 — that is a lot of vertical to cover, and it means the season you draw decides which half of the unit you hunt.
Unit Plateau, Fishlake 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 Mule Deer in Unit Plateau, Fishlake
Mule Deer Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no mule deer row for unit Plateau, Fishlake 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.
Mule Deer Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (resident) | 4 | 57 | 7.0% | 4 |
| Muzzleloader — Limited Entry bull/buck only (nonresident) | 1 | 7 | 14.3% | 4 |
Data from 2023 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2023 draw recap for mule deer in unit Plateau, Fishlake, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 57 applicants for 4 licences, 7% drawn, 4 bonus points needed
- Muzzleloader, Limited Entry, Bull/Buck Only, nonresident: 7 applicants for 1 licences, 14.3% drawn, 4 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.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
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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