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This house is near me. Pete Talk about a perfect house for Halloween. The 2,400-sq.-ft. atrium ranch home house at 84 Gillette Field Close in Weldon Spring, Missouri, was built in 1988 and boasts great views of the third and fourth holes at the Whitmoor Country Club. Except it's been abandoned for two years because it's filled with spiders. How many spiders? Oh, somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,500 to 6,000 spiders. Interested in buying it? Brian and Susan Trost purchased the home in the summer of 2007 for $450,000. The spider problem started shortly afterward, with Susan noticing webs – and then the spiders themselves – every day. The Trosts called in a pest control company to deal with the spiders – since identified as brown recluses – and had the home's drywall removed so the exterminators could spray behind it. They then had another company remove insulation from the attic and put down a pesticide powder. In 2008, the Trosts filed a claim with State Farm Insurance and took the home's previous owner to court. During the trial, University of Kansas biology professor Jamel Sandidge referred to the home's spider problem as "immense," estimating the spider population to be 4,500 to 6,000, an assessment all the more worrisome because it was performed during the winter, when the spiders are least active, Sandidge said. Ongoing lawsuits against State Farm and the previous owners, the Gaults, are still pending. (Among other things, State Farm does not consider the spider infestation "physical damage.") The Trosts moved out and the home went into foreclosure: McCarthy Pest Control had tented the structure as of Oct. 10 and pumped 200 pounds of sulfuryl fluoride gas into it at 67 degrees below zero. Though the brown recluse does have a venomous bite, "A lot of the fear [of the spider] is overdone," Matt Ormsby of the Missouri Department of Conversation tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Sure, you need to respect the spider, but a brown recluse doesn't have the bite pressure to make it through our skin, and they are not aggressive. ... The best way to prevent getting bitten is to shake out your stuff [that has been stored for a long time] and just frequent cleaning of the house."

I make a mean BBQ'd salmon. BBQ sauce goes great with salmon, you should try it. Pete

Maybe that's not the good table cloth....

Ponds are now officially stocked. According to the fish stocking hotline. Carry on. Pete

Weed money! That cracks me up. Do you think if they get the munchies they'll eat calamari? Wrench, Where are you on calamari? Pete

Amen brother. Pete

The kids talked me into one of those things on Tablerock. That's how I got out of it. They are still laughing at me when I turn my back on them. Pete

Where are you on calamari? Pete

It's what I do! BTW. I never saw the appeal for calamari. Fried, tasteless rubber bands. Pete

I went through this a couple weeks ago and opted out of the kayak deal. I'm not made to fold in half in one of those things. I wish an outfitter would start offering canoes down there on the Norfork. Pete

College kids these days!!! I'll take a chance. Thanks, Pete

Woodsman is where I used to rent them but they don't have them anymore. Two rivers wouldn't rent us one. They were unsafe. With min flow I'd just like to have more access. Pete

I should have mentioned it has a trolling motor. Pete

Thanks guys! This is the type of info I was looking for. I wasn't going to fish out of it, I just wanted to use it for access while floating down the river. For instance. Floating down the Norfork on no generation and if the water came up I could float out. I've done this in a canoe I rented down there before, but nobody rents canoes anymore. My body isn't made to fold into a yak. Tried it on T-Rock and the kids cracked up laughing. Pete

Do you think an 8 foot pond prowler would work on the White and Norfork? Not talking about fishing out of it, just use it float down to jump out and wade. I have one and it fits nicely in the back of my truck. Just wondering what you guys think. Thanks, Pete

Now Smallie. A real North County boy can take on several would-be attackers with a 4 weight alone. Pete

Thanks Ham, I'm deadly with an 8 foot fly rod and a spinning reel on it. Fly fishing is probably the least efficient way to catch fish, but I love it. I'll monitor your thread and see if I can make it. You'll have to sell me some Zig jigs though. Pete

Ham, Yes, I have been wading in from the golf course for quite a few years now. Before min flow the area from the boat ramp on the state park side up to the dam was awesome. Very still shallow water and lots of big spooky fish. I hear you on the Norfork. It can get ugly fast. Especially walking up from handicap to the second shoal. I quit doing it last year. I was thinking of coming down for your winter trip but I don't know anyone. Pete

Hey guys, I need to clarify my statement. I should have said, the wading opportunities on Min flow suck now. At least at the public areas with parking. I can't get out above the shoal at the boat ramp at the dam anymore, too much flow. And I don't see the fish midging in that water anymore either. The chutes and runs in the shoal itself are now raging torrents and I can't get out in those either. We did catch some very nice fish up to 20 inches but nothing like years past. I think the fishing is probably better but I like to drive in and wade. I've had a river john before but it is a lot more work to haul that 4.5 hours than to just drive down and wade. My weekends used to go like this. Fish the dam in the morning on low water and take lunch. Head down to Rim and fish out the rest of the day. Next day head to McClellans and fish there until the cows come in. Lather rinse and repeat. Now McC's is closed and the wading opportunities are limited at the dam. Can you get a boat above the shoal at BS Dam on min flow??? I don't think you can. Anyway, that was a long winded way of saying the fishing is probably as good or better than before but the wading opportunities aren't. San Juan below a jig headed egg on 4X flouro ROCKS!!! Pete

I was down there the weekend of 10/18/14 for 5 days. Min flow sucks!!!! There, I said it. I've been fishing there for 35 years. I believe it totally ruined the fishing at the dam. Why do you need min flow if there isn't an O2 problem??? It eliminated about 80 percent of the wadeable water up there. I didn't even go to Rim shoals thinking that if you add roughly 6 inches to a foot of water down there you couldn't cross the shoal. What a waste. I guess the boat renters are happy. Pete

What makes you think it was a misspelling??? Pete

Big hole is mostly filled in now. Kind of a shame really. Pete

Thanks! For me this is the opening of trout season. Pete

Good luck. I'm headed to mountain home Tuesday to Saturday. Woohoo! Pete

No thanks, they make me gassy. Pete