Utah Deer — Plateau, Fishlake
Utah Plateau, Fishlake covers 438,351 acres and lies 89 miles south of Santaquin and 98 miles south of Spanish Fork. 83% of it is public land, mostly national forest (66%) and BLM (14%). In 2023, 661 people hunted deer here and took 316 — 48% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has not offered a deer license in Plateau, Fishlake in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Utah deer hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest 288,094 ac · 66%
- Private 74,675 ac · 17%
- BLM 60,459 ac · 14%
- State trust land 14,888 ac · 3%
- State land 110 ac · 0%
- Tribal 51 ac · 0%
How the hunting has gone
What Utah Division of Wildlife Resources publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season.
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 661 | 316 | 48% |
| 2022 | 628 | 295 | 47% |
| 2021 | 721 | 294 | 41% |
What people carried (2023 harvest)
- Archery 36 · 12% · 132 hunters, 27% success
- Muzzleloader 64 · 22% · 130 hunters, 49% success
- Firearm 189 · 65% · 328 hunters, 58% success
Boundary: Utah Wildlife Management Units — Mule Deer (DWR biologist WMU/herd-unit layer)