Just days after Naracoorte man Ben Bull was attacked by a bronze whaler shark past the Granites Rocks, two Victorian fishermen had a somewhat "friendly encounter" with an 8-9 foot great white shark.

Ross Eldridge and Stuart Lardner from Horsham Angling Club had been fishing around Kings Rock off Cape Jaffa when they saw the shark lurking close by their boat on January 4.

"Stuart and I had been fishing around Kings Rock for the afternoon and it turned up not long after we put the burley out," Ross said.

"It swam around the boat for about five to 10 minutes and wasn't nasty at all...it didn't try and knock the boat. Then he just disappeared."

The fishermen continued casting off their rods, thinking the great white had moved on.

"We caught a five pound snapper and then an hour later caught another, which we began pulling into the left hand side of the boat.

"Then the shark came up out of nowhere and stole the snapper before we could get it in the boat.