NEW PLYMOUTH, New Zealand - Folks from New Zealand take their
fishing seriously.

Take Bev Marshall-Smith, 56, who was fishing
with her husband at a beach on the west coast of New Zealand's
North Island.

When a large fish chased her lure into the
shallows she picked up a piece of driftwood and charged in to
claim her prize.

When the truculent predator refused to expire
quietly Marshall-Smith beat it into submission.

It turned out
to be a nearly 6-foot blue shark.

"I didn't realize it was a
shark. I just went and grabbed it," she said, "Every time he
wrestled I hit him."

[Suffice it to say that a shark on the beach is worth two
attached to your legs in the middle of the ocean.]