Terrifying moment a great white shark takes a chunk out of a fisherman’s vessel - as frightened boatie’s hilarious response is caught on camera

• Lee and Adam Ferguson spotted the shark off Carnac Island on Friday morning 
• The four metre great white was trailing in the bloodied burley behind their boat 
• Lee captured incredible footage of the monster predator lunging at their boat
• He said he was intimidated but never felt unsafe around the enormous shark

Terrifying footage of an enormous great white shark circling a fisherman's boat off the coast of Western Australia can been caught on camera. 

Brothers Lee and Adam Ferguson set off from Coogee in Perth and set out for Carnac Island at 5am on Friday in order to fish for snapper.

An hour and a half into their morning, the men spotted the shark trailing behind their 5.2 metre boat.

'Adam spotted something in the burley trail and said "it's a big fish" and I said "that's not a big fish, it's a big shark",' Lee told 7News.

Burley is a form of baiting by dropping meat or fish into the ocean at intervals to lure fish close to fisherman to increase their chances of landing a catch.

The men estimated the shark was about four metres long and swam tight figure eights around them for 15 minutes while ramming into the boat and biting the motor.

Lee used a GoPro camera on a pole to capture incredible footage of the monster predator lunging at the back of the boat and his hilarious response as the shark breached.

'Oi! Oi! Go away!' he says in the clip.

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Lee Ferguson captured incredible footage of the monster predator lunging at his boat on Friday morning off Carnac Island

Lee stuck his hand in the water centimetres away from the sharks jaws to capture the moment.

'There was a couple of times it got too close, I tried to give him a poke with the GoPro and couldn't budge him at all so yeah, very heavy, very strong,' Lee said.

As the shark persisted around the boat, the brothers pulled up their anchor and sailed away, with the boat's motor, ladder and transducer damaged in the encounter.

Despite being just centimetres away from the predator, Lee said he was intimidated but never felt unsafe around the shark.

'That was uncomfortable. We didn’t feel in immediate danger though,' he said.

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The brothers (pictured) said they never felt unsafe around the enormous shark despite it ramming into their boat and biting the motor