A south-east Queensland snake catcher has experienced an incredibly close call while removing two eastern browns from a rural home.

Andrew Smedley was called to Kalbar in the Scenic Rim, south of Brisbane, on Sunday after the large reptiles were spotted near the verandah of a house.

He said when he went to grab the second snake and put it into a bag, he did not get the best grip.

"I sort of just had it too low on the tail, she more or less had control of me," he said.

"She's just kind of swung up and come back on her body — which they are good at — shot straight past my, well it was either my ear or my neck, but I felt it drop on my shoulder as it went down and that rattled me a bit.

"It happened that quick you don't really get time to react, it just went past my head and I saw the gates of heaven and that was it, my life flashed before me.

"I should have really had a hook to control the snake but the one I have is pretty useless so I didn't bother bringing it and obviously a bigger bag."

The eastern brown snake rates number two on the world's most venomous snake list.

Wayne Kirk from the Queensland Ambulance Service said paramedics usually saw a rise in snakebites as the weather started to warm up.

"Every snake should be treated as a venomous snake," he said.

"Most people get bitten on the lower limbs or on their hands because they are trying to mess about with them, they are either trying to catch them or chase them away," he said.

"By moving muscles and panicking [that] just helps that venom to spread a lot quicker, so basically relax, call triple-0, don't panic and if you have a bandage, then apply that compression bandage."