One Man's Bait Is a Spider's Dinner Most fish-eating spider reports come from the eastern U.S. Here, for example, a Dolomedes spider has just snagged some bait fish after a fisherman’s bad cast on a dock in Maine. Nyffeler and Pusey believe the number of reports in this region reflects the high population of nature watchers and ecological researchers in these areas... Credit: Photo by Jeffrey Hollis, East Haddam, Conn. Courtesy of Martin Nyffeler, University of Basel