Two young fishermen in a kayak hauled in a huge bronze whaler shark in the Bay of Plenty last night.
Local man Mathew Taylor was having dinner with his wife on Waihi beach when they saw the two men paddle out past the break.
"They had a whole kingfish as the bait and they paddled out with the kayak," Taylor told the Herald.
"By the time we finished dinner we could see they'd hooked something that was pretty big."
A crowd gathered on the beach as the kayak returned to shore.