Question: are there alligators in lake okeechobee florida?
Answer: A pair of Central Florida lakes -- Lake Apopka and Lake Jesup -- also contained more than 1,000 gators in 2015, WKMG reported. Closer to West Palm Beach, biologists spotted 502 alligators, 76 of which were bull gators, in the southern part of Lake Okeechobee in 2015.