Spider id

The other day I was walking around a pond and noticed this cool looking spider walking on the water. It was taken with my 100-400 so couldn't focus any closer without changing lenses.
What kind of spider do you think it is?

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not even a guess?

a creepy-crawley one? Nice shot though

Nancy

he is pretty creepy. Thanks for the comment

brown recluse?
...great shot whatevr it is.

Horrible spider, but I love the photo, well done!

some kind of water spider.

Great photo of an interesting spider. Unless you cropped heavily for this image, then the 100-400 wasn't a bad tool for the job.

Looks a lot like the Six-Spotted Fishing Spider on this page:
http://www.uky.edu …hing/pisaurid.h​tm#nursery

Also a lot like the nursery-web spider on this page (New Zealand, so closer to home here in Australia):
http://www.tepapa.govt​.nz …s_Web/What/Nurs​eryWeb.htm
That's what the nursery-web spider (female?) looks like in my 'Spider Watch' book on Australian spiders. Maybe my n-w is the same as your fishing spider??

A few nursery-web spider facts from my book:
- claw tufts enable it to run across water
- can dive below the surface after prey
- closely related to Wolf spiders
- female carries egg sac beneath her sternum
- when eggs are about to hatch, femals builds a tough silken nursery or brood chamber, hence the spider's name
- harmless, but bite can be painful

Thanks for the comments and the information. I think it looks more like the one in your area. This picture was only slightly cropped. The width of the spider almost filled the frame.