[Valigator]

depends on the lake, in some of the more murky waters no, you can't see him. One of the reasons they have been around for millions of years is the coloring of gators....I'll give you one example...we have whats called a river of grass in the everglades, some of that stuff is just nasty...its a mixure of muck, grass, and down here hydrilla...I have literally had a gator tethered to the boat and after he had rolled in that stuff, you cant make out his head from his tail....now its another ball game in the gulf, we had a small plane in the keys flew from Marathon to Miami a few days a week and you could see every shark and every ray in the water..thats when I quit water-sking in the gulf, especially in what we consider winter months down here....