The Naracoorte local is still recovering from a savage New Year's Eve shark attack near Kingston which left him with nearly 40 stitches in his right leg.

The 27-year-old lost more than a litre of blood as his wife Sharon and friend Luke Williams drove the half hour to Kingston Hospital.

The bronze whaler shark grabbed Ben's leg while he was fishing for mulloway and shark on the Coorong 15km north of Kingston at 11pm on New Year's Eve.

Waist deep in water, the keen fisherman had cast his line and had begun walking back through the first channel.

Before he reached the shore, the shark "grabbed on...and as he grabbed on...he started shaking my leg".

Ben turned to see the 1.8m shark behind him.

"As he let go I saw the tail fin move away," he said.

The attack left Ben with a gaping wound in his lower leg.

Sharon and their friend "Willo" were sitting on the shore and responded quickly to Ben's cries for help.

"It bit me, shook me and within a minute I was back into shore and calling out for help," Ben recalled.

"We were in the car within four minutes...it was very quick."

On the drive to Kingston, "I was bleeding all over Willo's car. The blood soaked through two towels, plus what was on the beach.

"It was easily a litre."