A MILDURA man has revealed the terrifying close encounter that he and two local mates had with a great white shark – which was "bloody bigger" than their 5.3-metre boat – during a fishing trip to South Australia last week.

John Clohesy, Malcolm Hare and Mick Crosbie were fishing for King George whiting about 8km offshore from Port Victoria, on the Yorke Peninsula, when the "bloody big" shark ...