DAYS after surfer Ben Linden was killed in a shark attack near Wedge Island, north of Perth, pictures have emerged of a leaping Great White off the coast.

A fisherman captured incredible footage of the encounter off the coast of Mindarie, a northern suburb of Perth, in May.

He had caught a two-metre reef shark, but as he was reeling it in, it was chomped below the dorsal fin by the Great White.

The shark, which was estimated at up to four metres long, then circled the fisherman's boat for 40 minutes, repeatedly nudging the motor's propeller.

In an attempt to repel the shark, the fisherman gaffed it.

The large hook agitated the shark, and it leapt metres out of the water, which the fisherman caught on camera.