Unit 26
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: 4 of 39 total bulls harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All | Spike | Bull | 6+ pt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 227 | 39 | 17.2% | 2 | 0.9% | 37 | 16.3% | 4 | 1.8% |
| 2024 | 223 | 35 | 15.7% | 5 | 2.2% | 30 | 13.5% | 14 | 6.3% |
| 2023 | 246 | 38 | 15.4% | 6 | 2.4% | 32 | 13% | 17 | 6.9% |
| 2022 | 213 | 30 | 14.1% | 5 | 2.3% | 25 | 11.7% | 13 | 6.1% |
| 2021 | 264 | 40 | 15.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 34 | 12.9% | 11 | 4.2% |
| 2020 | 199 | 18 | 9% | 0 | 0% | 18 | 9% | 4 | 2% |
| 2019 | 215 | 39 | 18.1% | 2 | 0.9% | 37 | 17.2% | 13 | 6% |
| 2018 | 278 | 37 | 13.3% | 1 | 0.4% | 36 | 12.9% | 27 | 9.7% |
| 2017 | 240 | 48 | 20% | 2 | 0.8% | 46 | 19.2% | 32 | 13.3% |
| 2016 | 190 | 37 | 19.5% | 0 | 0% | 37 | 19.5% | 19 | 10% |
| 2015 | 188 | 43 | 22.9% | 4 | 2.1% | 39 | 20.7% | 19 | 10.1% |
| 2014 | 142 | 24 | 16.9% | 2 | 1.4% | 22 | 15.5% | 10 | 7% |
| 2013 | 129 | 25 | 19.4% | 2 | 1.6% | 22 | 17.1% | 7 | 5.4% |
| 2012 | 164 | 30 | 18.3% | 1 | 0.6% | 23 | 14% | 10 | 6.1% |
| 2011 | 168 | 43 | 25.6% | 0 | 0% | 43 | 25.6% | 16 | 9.5% |
| 2010 | 235 | 27 | 11.5% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2009 | 271 | 53 | 19.6% | 0 | 0% | 45 | 16.6% | 25 | 9.2% |
| 2008 | 358 | 43 | 12% | 2 | 0.6% | 37 | 10.3% | 19 | 5.3% |
| 2007 | 285 | 64 | 22.5% | 1 | 0.4% | 55 | 19.3% | 23 | 8.1% |
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 26 Regular Deer, nonresident hunt code RD26.
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 26 nonresident limit: 90 tags, plus 42 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): 33 of 51 antlered deer harvested (2025)
Success rate history
| Year | Hunters | All deer | Antlered | 4+ pt | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | Harvest | Rate | ||
| 2025 | 176 | 52 | 29.5% | 51 | 29% | 33 | 18.8% |
| 2024 | 163 | 53 | 32.5% | 53 | 32.5% | 25 | 15.3% |
| 2023 | 178 | 39 | 21.9% | 39 | 21.9% | 23 | 12.9% |
| 2022 | 220 | 43 | 19.5% | 43 | 19.5% | 28 | 12.7% |
| 2021 | 173 | 61 | 35.3% | 61 | 35.3% | 29 | 16.8% |
| 2020 | 226 | 41 | 18.1% | 41 | 18.1% | 28 | 12.4% |
| 2019 | 189 | 47 | 24.9% | 47 | 24.9% | 28 | 14.8% |
| 2018 | 200 | 28 | 14% | 28 | 14% | 24 | 12% |
| 2017 | 211 | 49 | 23.2% | 46 | 21.8% | 29 | 13.7% |
| 2016 | 162 | 40 | 24.7% | 34 | 21% | 24 | 14.8% |
| 2015 | 106 | 36 | 34% | 36 | 34% | 27 | 25.5% |
| 2014 | 132 | 35 | 26.5% | 35 | 26.5% | 15 | 11.4% |
| 2013 | 116 | 22 | 19% | 22 | 19% | 12 | 10.3% |
| 2012 | 126 | 29 | 23% | 29 | 23% | 20 | 15.9% |
| 2011 | 163 | 16 | 9.8% | 11 | 6.7% | 3 | 1.8% |
| 2010 | 166 | 15 | 9% | 14 | 8.4% | 10 | 6% |
| 2009 | 158 | 33 | 20.9% | 23 | 14.6% | 5 | 3.2% |
| 2008 | 181 | 33 | 18.2% | 32 | 17.7% | 11 | 6.1% |
| 2007 | 198 | 50 | 25.3% | 47 | 23.7% | 34 | 17.2% |
IDFG doesn't publish harvest by residency.
Source: IDFG harvest statistics, 2025.