Me and my brother had an encounter with a big black bear while fishing last year, it was about4:30 am and still dark and me and my brother were fishing with Topwaters at a local lake (Lake lopez ca) when out of the corner my I saw a bear that was about 4ft tall,I whispered to my brother "Bro there's a bear behind us" (about 30ft) at first he ignored me with a "psh" and I answered "I'm serious" I said, he finally turned around to look-he was speechless and we sat down prayed and thought about what to do and finally decided to slowly walk away back to camp luckily it didn't follow us, also during the weekend there were many other bear sittings from other campers.
Glad to have come out of that safely".