What time of day do you see spring Bears ??

[swift]

So I got to Thinking after the last week of bear hunting on what time of day most people see bears ? Early morning , mid morning, afternoon, evening

[CAMPMEAT]

Mid May...... all day...

[Spawnstar]

I've seen 9 bears in 3 weeks and they've all been at night.

[Okanagan]

Mid-morning through evening.  I don't bother any more to hunt early morning for black bears, spring or Fall.

Black bears are like teenage boys:  sleep in and eat all of the time. 

[Quackwhacker]

I saw one a couple days ago in the evening. Wish it would have been morning and I might have had a chance at him.


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[Lefty315]

Of all the Bears I've ever seen only one has been in the early morning.  95% have been in the afternoon/evening.   I hunted with a guide in Canada 11 years ago.   He said the only reason he even leaves camp before 3PM is because clients start to get antsy and want to go hunting.

[Okanagan]

Of all the Bears I've ever seen only one has been in the early morning.  95% have been in the afternoon/evening. 

Ditto to only seeing one black bear in early morning in my life.  It was a smallish bear and since there was a humonguous bear in the same basin that fed each afternoon, I think that the small bear fed early to avoid the big one.   

[swift]

This is right inline with what we have found ourselves just wanting to
get a idea of what others have found Thanks guys !

[skagitsteel]

spring time noticeably more bears in the afternoon, in the fall up high I see more in the morning

[bowman]

I see a lot of bears in the morning. Just as many as I do in the evening. The bear I harvested last year was a morning bear.

[dune]

The one I shot at 2week's ago was late evening bear are going to move all day unless it is a high traffic area. Hot days look low and thick by rivers and swamps.

[Expedition Scout]

All of my bears have been taken between 10 am and 2 pm. I would say mid afternoon, but everyone needs to remember the bear came from someplace. The areas I hunt just might be a locations that they end up at during that time frame. They most likely started elsewhere earlier in the morning and arrived in my hunting spot, while departing and continuing to other locations I don't know about.

So it would depend on location, terrain, available feed, activity level, and most likely human interactions. Hunt bears where you see them, when you see them. if you only see bears at a certain time of day, its probably a learned behavior on your part - conditioned by where you choose to look for them. 

[Okanagan]

if you only see bears at a certain time of day, its probably a learned behavior on your part - conditioned by where you choose to look for them. 

Au contraire!  My theory as to why I hardly ever see a bear at dawn is that my eyes and binoculars are defective and that they do not pick up visuals on bears until well after sun-up.    My visual equipment increases its sensitivity to detect bears as the day wears on.    There have no doubt been many bears in view during the many mornings that I have glassed bear country but my binos only show them later in the day.  I'm not sure what to do about this defectiveness in my binos.     They work fine to see deer, elk, coyotes etc. any time of day, but can't see bears in early morning.  Very strange.

For example:  no bears at sun-up and three bears on the same hillside at 6:00 pm.  No bears on a mountainside at dawn but seven spring bears there an hour before sunset.  Obviously those bears were present early in the morning but my binos can't see them till later in the day.  I need early morning visual help!

Just thought of another sunrise bear, glassed in the Paysayten on a mid-summer deer scout.  Once in awhile I am able to thwart my defective binos and see an early bear.  Sigh. 

All in fun.  Good luck however you hunt them!

[WA hunter14]

all bears i have seen have been afternoon or evening with 75% being last hour or two of light, exept one awesome blonde i saw going up toats coulee at like 9:30 am.

[Expedition Scout]

if you only see bears at a certain time of day, its probably a learned behavior on your part - conditioned by where you choose to look for them. 

Au contraire!  My theory as to why I hardly ever see a bear at dawn is that my eyes and binoculars are defective and that they do not pick up visuals on bears until well after sun-up.    My visual equipment increases its sensitivity to detect bears as the day wears on.    There have no doubt been many bears in view during the many mornings that I have glassed bear country but my binos only show them later in the day.  I'm not sure what to do about this defectiveness in my binos.     They work fine to see deer, elk, coyotes etc. any time of day, but can't see bears in early morning.  Very strange.

For example:  no bears at sun-up and three bears on the same hillside at 6:00 pm.  No bears on a mountainside at dawn but seven spring bears there an hour before sunset.  Obviously those bears were present early in the morning but my binos can't see them till later in the day.  I need early morning visual help!

Based on your description, I don't think it has anything to do with your equipment or visual capability, your obviously hunting the after work crowd and there favorite diner. When you walk into the local bar and grill in the morning, you don't see any of the local working class in there, but after the whistle blows, all of a sudden there are locals everywhere...  You just need to find where the bears work during the day, or eat lunch! 

[BOWHUNTER45]

Only seen one so far this spring and it was a Big Boar ..I think it was around 2pm or So 

[sled]

Everything I've seen has been afternoon/evening.

[saylean]

I've shot two spring bears, both around 1130am. However, I see most bears on evening hunts.

[trophyhunt]

One of my 10 favorite things about spring bear is, I get to sleep in and still have a good hunt!!

[Okanagan]

In the interest of honesty in this open, transparent and caring community, I will confess that I saw a bear at 8:15 AM last Wednesday.  After sleeping in, some bear hunters and I were on our way to get some coffee and breakfast in town rather than eat our own cooking, and the medium large bear was on a river gravel bar a mile from our camp.   

Spent four days in bear country and saw 11 bears.   We usually started hunting about 9:00 AM so am guilty of not looking for them in early morning.  Besides the one at 8:15 AM I saw one at  1:30 PM, one at 3:15 and eight after 7:00 PM, including three in a five minute span.  The bears exist at dawn, but are seldom in a place to glass, nor do they appear very active early in the day.  Not sure how well they would respond to calls in that inactive state, but have seen bears at leisure look longingly at a call sound, sigh and slump down where they are.  A man could find a brush patch with bear sign and crawl in amongst 'em at dawn.   

[jasnt]

I've seen them at all hours of the day.   But most morning bears I've seen where small or moms with cubs

[Timberstalker]

I've seen more spring bears from 10:00am to 2:00pm then any other time.

[Ripper]

I had the Monroe spring tag a few years ago and worked second shift. All of my hunting was mornings and I only saw 1 small bear the whole season. In the fall I've seen and taken them from early morning to sun down. I shot my last one at 4:00 in the afternoon on August 3rd. The one before on August 28 at 8:15 am. That was the 4th bear I saw that morning, they were all feeding on the same hillside in a thick nasty berry patch.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Saw one last night at 7:05pm....

[trophyhunt]

Shot my spring bear this year at 9:30 am, he was out following a big female and there was a small bear within 150 yards of them.