Yes it was visible to the naked eye when I saw it but it was so small as to not see a lot. My spotting scope was a 22X60 Celestron with ED glass. Quite a bit sharper than the standard one.
When we looked at it, it was slightly North of West in the twilight of the Florida Panhandle.
I was living in Japan at the time. As you said, it was naked eye visible but pretty small. All we had was 7x50 binos but they helped a lot.