"That'd be a kahawai," Jaan Robertson's uncle declared as line started spilling off the reel in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour.
When a 4m great white shark leaped out of the water they realised they faced more of a challenge.
The four family members were fishing for snapper 100m off the Te Atatu Peninsula in only 2.5m of murky water on Monday afternoon. They'd caught a couple of fish and were getting ready to head back to shore when Jaan's brother, Mat Robertson, felt something strike his whole-pilchard bait.
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