Unit 20A
Elk
Resident licenses
Middle Fork Zone Elk Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes bull elk
A Tag: Any weapon — Units 20A and 26: antlered only; Unit 27: brow-tined bulls only.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Elk Zone Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes bull elk
Middle Fork Zone general elk tag (units 20A, 26, 27).
Nonresident general-season elk tags are not sold over the counter: beginning with the 2026 season IDFG issues them by random draw — first application period Dec 5-15, 2025, second application period Feb 5-15, 2026 — against a statewide nonresident general-season quota of 12,815 elk tags.
Middle Fork Zone nonresident limits — A Tag: 174 nonresident tags (capped zone — 1,551 total capped tags, of which 1,168 are resident tags and 209 are allocated to outfitters).
B Tag: 267 nonresident tags (capped zone — 1,636 total capped tags, of which 925 are resident tags and 444 are allocated to outfitters).
Price: $651.75 nonresident elk tag plus $185.00 nonresident hunting license (Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules, Nonresident License, Tag and Permit Fees, prices as of December 1, 2024).
Source: 2026 Nonresident General Tags and Tags Allocated to Outfitters, "Nonresident Elk Tags by Zone" and "Elk Tag Limits for Nonresidents and Outfitters by Zone".
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
6+ point bulls: 22 of 73 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 301 | 73 | 24.3% | 20 | 6.6% | 53 | 17.6% | 22 | 7.3% |
| 2024 | 308 | 62 | 20.1% | 9 | 2.9% | 53 | 17.2% | 29 | 9.4% |
| 2023 | 347 | 40 | 11.5% | 6 | 1.7% | 34 | 9.8% | 12 | 3.5% |
| 2022 | 260 | 60 | 23.1% | 10 | 3.8% | 50 | 19.2% | 26 | 10% |
| 2021 | 280 | 54 | 19.3% | 6 | 2.1% | 48 | 17.1% | 18 | 6.4% |
| 2020 | 364 | 68 | 18.7% | 20 | 5.5% | 48 | 13.2% | 37 | 10.2% |
| 2019 | 370 | 67 | 18.1% | 9 | 2.4% | 57 | 15.4% | 39 | 10.5% |
| 2018 | 293 | 82 | 28% | 8 | 2.7% | 74 | 25.3% | 39 | 13.3% |
| 2017 | 233 | 62 | 26.6% | 6 | 2.6% | 56 | 24% | 20 | 8.6% |
| 2016 | 233 | 58 | 24.9% | 0 | 0% | 58 | 24.9% | 42 | 18% |
| 2015 | 234 | 86 | 36.8% | 9 | 3.8% | 77 | 32.9% | 35 | 15% |
| 2014 | 199 | 49 | 24.6% | 4 | 2% | 45 | 22.6% | 14 | 7% |
| 2013 | 194 | 45 | 23.2% | 9 | 4.6% | 36 | 18.6% | 24 | 12.4% |
| 2012 | 210 | 50 | 23.8% | 6 | 2.9% | 44 | 21% | 27 | 12.9% |
| 2011 | 195 | 22 | 11.3% | 2 | 1% | 20 | 10.3% | 15 | 7.7% |
| 2010 | 335 | 67 | 20% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 416 | 90 | 21.6% | 1 | 0.2% | 77 | 18.5% | 52 | 12.5% |
| 2008 | 534 | 126 | 23.6% | 10 | 1.9% | 106 | 19.9% | 68 | 12.7% |
| 2007 | 401 | 100 | 24.9% | 8 | 2% | 68 | 17% | 37 | 9.2% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.
Deer
Resident licenses
Regular Deer Tag
Availability: General Season
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Antlered: Sep 15 - Oct 31.
Antlerless: None.
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Nonresident licenses
Nonresident Regular Deer Tag
Availability: Draw — see notes
✅ Includes antlered deer opportunity (all deer)
Unit 20A Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD20A.
Nonresident general-season deer tags are not sold over the counter: beginning with the 2026 season IDFG issues them by random draw — first application period Dec 5-15, 2025, second application period Feb 5-15, 2026 — against a statewide nonresident general-season quota of 15,500 deer tags.
Unit 20A nonresident limit: 17 tags, plus 60 tags allocated to outfitters.
Price: $351.75 nonresident deer tag plus $185.00 nonresident hunting license (Idaho Big Game 2026 Seasons & Rules, Nonresident License, Tag and Permit Fees, prices as of December 1, 2024).
Source: 2026 Nonresident General Tags and Tags Allocated to Outfitters, "Nonresident Regular Deer Tags by Unit" and "Regular Deer Tag Limits for Nonresidents and Outfitters by Unit".
Source: IDFG regulations (2026)
Idaho's Regular Deer Tag harvest and success-rate figures below combine the mule and white-tailed deer populations into one number — IDFG doesn't publish a single-species breakdown at the unit level.
4+ point deer (all deer): 6 of 35 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 160 | 35 | 21.9% | 35 | 21.9% | 6 | 3.8% |
| 2024 | 202 | 56 | 27.7% | 55 | 27.2% | 10 | 5% |
| 2023 | 176 | 47 | 26.7% | 46 | 26.1% | 32 | 18.2% |
| 2022 | 175 | 17 | 9.7% | 17 | 9.7% | 6 | 3.4% |
| 2021 | 184 | 56 | 30.4% | 56 | 30.4% | 31 | 16.8% |
| 2020 | 238 | 40 | 16.8% | 38 | 16% | 11 | 4.6% |
| 2019 | 184 | 47 | 25.5% | 46 | 25% | 33 | 17.9% |
| 2018 | 200 | 42 | 21% | 41 | 20.5% | 28 | 14% |
| 2017 | 100 | 29 | 29% | 29 | 29% | 27 | 27% |
| 2016 | 143 | 52 | 36.4% | 48 | 33.6% | 22 | 15.4% |
| 2015 | 174 | 63 | 36.2% | 55 | 31.6% | 37 | 21.3% |
| 2014 | 118 | 36 | 30.5% | 36 | 30.5% | 21 | 17.8% |
| 2013 | 92 | 17 | 18.5% | 17 | 18.5% | 3 | 3.3% |
| 2012 | 97 | 22 | 22.7% | 20 | 20.6% | 16 | 16.5% |
| 2011 | 142 | 35 | 24.6% | 35 | 24.6% | 10 | 7% |
| 2010 | 177 | 30 | 16.9% | 30 | 16.9% | 21 | 11.9% |
| 2009 | 168 | 33 | 19.6% | 33 | 19.6% | 24 | 14.3% |
| 2008 | 259 | 48 | 18.5% | 43 | 16.6% | 23 | 8.9% |
| 2007 | 227 | 61 | 26.9% | 58 | 25.6% | 27 | 11.9% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.