it depends on where you are at. I get pictures every years from multiple locations. I do not bear hunt, I get them on my deer hunting cameras. I had one destroy one of my cameras a couple years ago. I have had them walk by my stand before.From my experiences down there after leasing a place for a couple of years, if you can't or have someone bait for you year around, your odds are extremely slim. I think we had one bear pic out of multiple cams. From the locals that I talked to that killed them, they killed them out of the same stand yearly, and kept them fed yearly.
But, there are guys around me that try to bear hunt and cannot get a picture, location, location, location.