What is this Spider?

[clyde]

Frequently I have found this spider in my home in Tennessee. Anyone know what it is? It is a good 3 inches around and some are a little bigger than this one. I have searched and searched. Hope someone here can help!

 

[liveprey]

Nice picture, can't help with the id though. Sorry. Someone will step forward, I'm sure.

 

[Usumbara Mtns]

Usumbara Mtns

It kinda looks like a carolina wolf spider or some sort of wolf spider, but i may be wrong.

 

[pitbulllady]

That is a gorgeous Dolomedes tenebrosus you got there. It's one of the "Fishing Spiders", quite common in the Southeast.

pitbulllady

 

[Tleilaxu]

And whats it supposed to catch in a house LOL

 

[pitbulllady]

And whats it supposed to catch in a house LOL

These readily eat insects, like most other spiders do, and will readily come inside houses to catch cockroaches and other household inverts.

pitbulllady

 

[Tleilaxu]

I was joking LOL I knew that. Not as bulky as the fishing spiders up here though.