India, March 20 -- A wild video shows North Carolina fishermen catching a huge great white shark that drifted ashore in an unincorporated community on Hatteras Island. The place is about 30 miles east of the mainland.

Recalling the incident, fisherman Luke Beard told Fox 19, "I set hook on the fish and it just felt different."

The scary video of the March 15 incident showed Beard, his best friend Jason Rosenfeld and five other men wrestling the massive shark in shallow waters while trying to set it free safely. Beard believes the shark was 12 to 13 feet long and weighed between 1,400 and 1,800 pounds.

Beard and Rosenfeld did catch big game in the past, including a huge stingray. However, this was the first time they tackled a shark in ...