For the second time in six months he has used it to fend off a great white pointer.

Mr Hoey, who runs Salty Dog Fishing Charters, was on his boat near Lady Julia Percy Island on Wednesday in search of yellowtail kingfish.

“We were looking for yellowtail kingfish to put some satellite tags in them,” he said.

“After about an hour it (the shark) turned up.”

Mr Hoey said the shark was about four-and-a-half metres long.

“It hung around the boat for about 20 minutes and it probably came back about half a dozen times,” he said.

Mr Hoey said it wasn’t as big as the shark he had to fend off in October, which was about five-and-a-half metres long.

“It wasn’t too agressive, not like the other one, but it is a little unnerving,” he said.

Mr Hoey captured the moment the shark he and his mates dubbed ‘Black Betty’ circled his boat on film.

“Get out of it, Black Betty,” Mr Hoey can be heard saying. “Don’t bite my boat – or my anchor rope.”

Mr Hoey said Lady Julia Percy Island was a known haunt for sharks.

Asked about his trusty broom, Mr Hoey said he relied on it in more ways than one.

“It’s part of my boat,” Mr Hoey said.

“I use it to clean the boat at the end of the day but it’s secondary function is a shark repellant."

Mr Hoey said the sharks seemed to be drawn to the boat propellers.

The Standard, Warrnambool