Utah Elk EB3064 — Unit Fishlake/Thousand Lakes

Limited-entry Bull Elk - Fishlake/Thousand Lakes

What you may take
Limited-entry Bull Elk - Fishlake/Thousand Lakes (antlered)
Weapon
Rifle
Where
Fishlake/Thousand Lakes
88% public of 763,078 acres
Season (2026)
Oct 3–15, 2026
Nonresident tags (2026)
9
for 137 first-choice applicants
Hunter success here (2025)
61%
of everyone who hunted the area

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Odds by point level — 2026 draw

Prior-draw probability for a first-choice nonresident applicant. 5 tags, 137 first-choice applicants, drew out at 18 points. Source: Utah Draw System DrawOddsData · HuntID=1588.

Points Your chance Applicants Drawn
0 <1% (<1%–<1%) 24 0
1 <1% (<1%–<1%) 12 0
2 1% (1%–1%) 10 0
3 2% (2%–2%) 7 0
4 2% (2%–3%) 1 0
5 3% (3%–3%) 14 1
6 3% (3%–3%) 9 1
7 3% (3%–3%) 7 1
8 4% (4%–4%) 6 0
9 4% (4%–5%) 5 0
10 5% (5%–5%) 4 0
11 5% (5%–5%) 10 0
12 5% (5%–6%) 7 0
13 6%
14 7% (6%–7%) 2 0
15 7% (6%–7%) 7 0
16 7% (6%–7%) 2 0
17 8% (7%–8%) 2 1
18 60% (60%–61%) 7 4
19 100% 0 0
20 100% 0 0
21–23 100% same chance at every one of these levels
24 100% (100%–100%) 1 1

Monte Carlo over published bonus-point pools. A dash means Utah Division of Wildlife Resources did not publish a count for that level. How we compute these.

What it costs (2026 nonresident fees)

Cash to apply
$165
Out of pocket if unsuccessful
$165
Total if drawn
$2,115
Refunded if unsuccessful
$0

At the 2026 odds, expected cost per hunt-year ranges from $2,115 (enough points to draw) to $38,365.80 (lowest published odds).

Nonresident big game application fee, per species or point applied for (plus 2.2% card processing fee) · paid at application $21 source
Nonresident 365-day hunting license, age 18+ (required to apply; a drawn nonresident big game permit also acts as a 1-year fishing license) · paid at application $144 or $190 source
Bonus or preference point only (same as the application fee; no permit fee) · only for a point bought without applying — an unsuccessful applicant gets the point free $21 source
Nonresident limited-entry bull elk permit (charged only if drawn) · paid if drawn $1,950 or $2,655 source

Not applying this year? A point-only purchase costs $21 (Mar 19 – Jun 23, expected) and keeps you moving toward the 18-point cut.

Next application window: opens Mar 19, closes Apr 23, 2027 (expected) · results ~May 31. Last cycle's schedule rolled forward — confirm when the agency publishes.

Point creep & years to draw

Insufficient history (1 of 3 draws) — a creep trend needs at least three draw years.

Seasons (2026)

Split 1: Oct 3–15, 2026 p. HuntID=1588

How this tag has hunted

Across every license type in Fishlake/Thousand Lakes, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources counted 376 hunters and 231 elk taken in 2025 — 61% of them killed something. Full Fishlake/Thousand Lakes profile: maps, public land, five years of harvest →

Hunters holding this license type (2025) — the rest of the area's hunters held something else:

What they hunted Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
Type Limited Entry 87 29 33%
Type Limited Entry 38 32 84%
Type Limited Entry 107 62 58%
Type Limited Entry 64 54 84%
Type Limited Entry 55 42 76%
Type Limited Entry 13 9 69%
Type Limited Entry 12 3 25%

Post-season survey, not draw statistics. Source: 2025 Utah Big Game Harvest (preliminary) — single combined report, all species and hunt types 2024 Utah Big Game Harvest — General Season Buck Deer + Limited Entry/Once-in-a-Lifetime (all species)

Year by year

The standard draw for nonresidents, one row per year. Utah runs a second, random pass after the points pass; it is shown beside the year it belongs to.

Year Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Random pass Source
2026 9 137 15.2 18 4 tags Utah Draw System DrawOddsData · HuntID=1588

Earlier years, when this number was a different hunt

Utah reassigns hunt numbers between years. In these years EB3064 stood for another unit or weapon, so they are listed here rather than counted as this hunt's history or in its point-creep trend.

Year · what it was Tags Applicants Applicants per tag Points needed Source
2025 · Unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes 190 21 2025 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 275
2024 · Unit Fishlake/thousand Lakes 178 20 2024 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 260
2023 · Unit Plateau, Fishlake/thousand Lakes 184 19 2023 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 262
2022 · Unit Plateau, Fishlake/thousand Lakes 114 18 2022 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 269
2021 · Unit Plateau, Fishlake/thousand Lakes 85 17 2021 Draw 5, Big Game Bonus... · p. 261

Other licenses valid in Fishlake/Thousand Lakes

Legal cartridges for elk in Utah

From the Utah hunting laws rules on file for a rifle. "Depends" means the rule turns on your specific load — check the state page.

.22-250 Remington
.223 Remington from $0.42/rd
.243 Winchester from $1.11/rd
.25-06 Remington
6.5 Creedmoor
6.5 Grendel
.270 Winchester from $0.16/rd
7mm-08 Remington
7mm Remington Magnum
.30-06 Springfield
.300 AAC Blackout from $0.56/rd
.300 Winchester Magnum from $1.25/rd
.30-30 Winchester
.308 Winchester
.338 Winchester Magnum
.350 Legend from $1.07/rd
.35 Whelen
.360 Buckhammer
.400 Legend
.444 Marlin
.450 Bushmaster from $2.00/rd
.45-70 Government from $1.97/rd
.50 Beowulf
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How to read these numbers

Every percentage on this page is a prior-draw probability: the chance an applicant with that many points would have drawn in the draw year shown, computed from the agency's published results. It is not a forecast — quotas, applicant numbers, and point creep change every year. Every figure links to the agency document it came from. Where a state does not publish a number, we show a dash, never a zero. Hunts with fewer than five tags show counts instead of percentages. Fees show the fee year used. Read the methodology for the engine details.

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