Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's partner Clarke Gayford had just landed a 40kg fish and thought that was the peak of his day.
Then he got in the water with a whale shark.
Gayford, in Rarotonga with Ardern on the final leg of her Pacific tour, was diving with the shark yesterday when it became "overly amorous", rolling and pinning him against a boat.
"On any other day landing a 40kg yellowfin tuna would be the day's peak," the Herald on Sunday's fishing columnist tweeted.