Bears love water, especially pools like elk wallows. Ive had many a bear on cam at elk wallows, more than ive had elk in fact. This year i killed 2 bears mid day in creek bottoms, and today i killed one in shady timber a few hundred yards from a pond. Find bear food + water + cover / shade and bears will be there. Bears are active all day. Theyre really not very active in the dark unless human disturbance makes them nocturnal. When its hot out, and youre wearing a thick fur coat, where are you going to hang out in the heat of the day? Where theres shade and cold water, not in a hot sunny clearcut. When people say bears are crepuscular, its because they glass cuts. Get in the timber where you cant glass, bears are active all day. Most of my bears have been taken between 11am and 1pm. I hunt in the timber.