No you cannot. You will need to hunt in a designated bear hunting concession and a registered guide must issue your permit. The Tags are over the counter, but you still need a permit.

If you're not dead set on DIY spot and stalk You can hunt over bait, run hounds, and trap bears in Maine with a guide. 1 bear by hunting 1 bear by trapping. 2 bears per year.

Grand Junction CO. A couple young archery elk hunters left that area because of too many bears.

I'm in Rifle, Colorado, just east of Grand Junction about an hour. I LOVE hunting bears. And if you want an adrenaline rush, use a fawn in distress call, and have your head on a swivel. My preferred method is with a handgun, or a flintlock. There's nothing like entering the food chain, not just hunting it. And that's exactly what you'll do if you use a fawn in distress call. Spring or Fall, works either way. We lost our spring season several years ago, but using predator calls in the fall works just as well. You start blowing a distress call of any kind, and you're gonna have bears coming quickly. And you won't hear them. They can be EXTREMELY quiet, even when running. Come out to Rifle, and I'll get ya on bears. I own Timberline Sporting Goods in Rifle, and I'll help ya all I can. We have TONS of them here. Nothing like the quality they have in Canada, or Maine, but we have a lot of them.

I do a DYI bear hunt every year out my back door here in WV. No baiting and I don’t use dogs although it’s legal here.
We have a long season and tags are over the counter.
Depending on where your are in OH you could come down and hunt multiple times instead of one week and done.
All mountain counties have lots of bear. Some counties have a 2 bear limit. A couple of years ago I killed 2 in one year.
Key is finding food sources. Specifically white oaks which most years are patchy, thus concentrating the bear.
I run tons of cameras and last year I found a marking tree. Had multiple bears hitting that tree daily. I killed a bear visiting that marking tree. Never heard of anyone doing that, but I hunted there because of what the camera told me.
Great counties are Tucker, Randolph, Preston, Nicholas, Boone, Kanawha, among others. In many mountain counties there are vast areas of National forest.
Tons of bear in the very southern part as well.
Bear outfitting is illegal here so it is DYI only.
Camping is legal on most of the forest.
In many counties you can hunt bear and deer at the same time with a gun. Although many counties dropped that last year. Bow season for bear and deer run from late Sept. through 12/31.
Many years the kill is over 3,000. Won’t be that high from 2022 as they shortened alot of the rifle seasons. Said they had reached population goals. I saw no less bear over the last several years, but with the lower kill numbers will spike.
Good luck!!!!

Hunting bears in Montana. I have not hunted bears in a few years but when I did they were tough to come by. You could wear out a pair or two of boots depending on population and go home with sore feet and boots for the wall. There seems to be shifts in population with there being a lot more this fall than in the past. Many took bears this past fall season. Talked to a guy who hunted for like two months this past spring and never took a bear. I would not chose Montana as my first choice.

Spot and stalk hunts you might want to head west in the spring. Montana maybe Idaho.