Spider identification- biggest I've ever seen in Louisiana

following. i’ve ssen them before but have no idea what species

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Willow tree that overhangs water

The wife said it’s a house on fire spider. Cause she is burning this bitch down if she sees one in the house

frick that shite.

It appears to be a soon to be smashed fishing spider to me. Probably just finished consuming a 4 pound bass.

When a kid living in an old shotgun house in the Lower 9th Ward we would see about 10 of those HUGE arse spiders a year inside the house.

Sometimes they'd have their egg sacks attached to the bellies of the females that made them look even bigger.

I swear, some of those spiders were as big as a man's palm and would send chills down your spine when you saw them scoot across walls or ceilings.

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All of those kinda things are wolf spiders to me.

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Same here.

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Saw one of these on the way to my bow stand last season. I've said it before, I don't like spiders at all. I was bitten by a black widow when I was about ten years old, a "friend" threw it on me while we were rummaging through an old shed in the woods.

Anyway, I thought about that critter the whole time I was in the stand. Got down early, gave that tree a wide berth when I passed it. Interestingly, it was nowhere near water.

Not the largest spider I have seen in the woods either. I saw a tarantula in Red Dirt north of Alexandria several years ago. It was as big as my hand, and I've got huge hands. That sucker crawled on my leg as I sat on the ground deer hunting. I overcame my fear and pushed it into my backpack and took it to the ranger station. The ranger said to me, "make sure that thing doesn't bite you!" I just couldn't light it up so I let it go right ouside the ranger station.