A guy here at work told me about his buddies lab. Dog swam out to get the duck and never came back. The guys were talking and not really watching the dog for a second or two. They never hear or saw anything except for seeing the disturbed water where the dog was supposed to be at. They never saw the gator.
Justs because you can't see the gators, don't mean they aren't around.
Just the other day my co-worker was at a friends house shooting bows. He was messing with his lab. Threw a stick in the dog went in after it. While the dog was swimming back a big dark object just under the water surface passed by and he saw it was a gator. It swam up to the dog fast an bump it hard. He tried to make her swim to a different dock. While doing that the gator had turned around and was coming back for another hit. The dog just made it out of the water.
Everything turned out well. He hasn't seen the gator again.
Some holes I will and others I won't.
I've stepped on a few small 4 footers and had the cherios scared out of me. Saw my buddy last year during teal season step on a 9 footer. We were picking up deeks, and he took a step. Big water commotion and a huge tail came up. It then took off and created a ripple all the way to the other side. My padna damn near walked on water to the boat.