'The biggest snake I've caught': Monster brown snake caught after evading catcher three times

An elusive eastern brown snake measuring close to six-foot long has been captured in a backyard in Melbourne.

Jarrod Bingham, a snake catcher from Reptile Relocations in Victoria, said it was the biggest snake he has ever caught in his 10-year career as a snake catcher - but it wasn't easy.

Video shows Mr Bingham looking for the snake at a home in Rockbank, west of Melbourne, when the residents point out that it has slithered into the water meter box.

Mr Bingham then finds the snake tucked away and attempts to coax it out, but it heads towards the garden to hide. He then uses a squeegee to get the snake into a bag.

This wasn't the first time Mr Bingham had been to the address. A woman who was passing through the residential street in Rockbank saw the snake and was the one who immediately called Mr Bingham to rescue it.

When he arrived at the home to tell the residents that a woman had just seen a snake go under their fence, they didn't believe him.

"I told them there's a snake in the area and they thought I was crazy," he told Yahoo7.

Mr Bingham said it proved to be an issue when trying to find it as no one had been following it and therefore didn't know where it had gone.

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"I had to leave because I just couldn't find it, but about 30 minutes later they called me back and said it was in their backyard," Mr Bingham said.

But again, it couldn't be found. It was on the third attempt that Mr Bingham and the residents managed to locate the snake. It was hiding in a very small hole in the driveway.

Mr Bingham said he couldn't believe how big the snake was and that it got itself into the hole.

"It was easily pushing six-foot," he said.

"It's probably the biggest snake I've caught in my career. The residents were over the moon when I was able to finally catch it."

Mr Bingham said this rescue is a reminder to people to keep an eye on the snake when they call a snake catcher to come and retrieve one.

"You need to be keeping an eye on it because if you're not then it's like looking for a needle in a haystack," he said.

"They can completely disappear and it becomes very hard to locate them again."

Mr Bingham, who is soon hoping to "catch those snakes in parliament" when he runs for Independent Councillor in his local council, said snakes won't bite unless they feel threatened so when you see one, stay calm and stay away.