It’s amazing what drunk South Australians can do.

An Eyre Peninsula man is the talk of the town after catching a bronze whaler shark in his hands and wrestling it up onto a jetty.

Phillip Kerkhof from Louth Bay was at the local jetty when the 1.3-metre shark began chasing squid lures.

He says he climbed down a ladder and began to follow the shark in shallow water.

“I just snuck up behind him and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him,” he said.

“He’s just thrashing around in the water but then he was starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought ‘well, it’s amazing what vodka does’.”

The only damage from the dangerous species was a bite mark to his jeans.

“It’s not something I’d recommend to do. When I sobered up I thought about it and I said, ‘I’m a bit of an idiot doing it’,” Mr Kerkhof said.

A bit of an idiot? No, really?