fly-fishing – Kerry and Peter's Blog

Quick Kununurra (WA) visit, Katherine.

June 2025

We drove out to Elsie Station, thanks to brother Rob we were able to get permission to go fishing on the Roper River – WOW! some beautiful spots out there, our 1st trip we just went for a few hours, caught 5 barra but only kept 2. Our next rip we camped out there for the night – another WOW! experience, so beautiful, we did manage to catch a couple bara but didn’t keep any this time. Had a coffee when we greeted the morning, then walked down the river for a few klms throwing lures, caught a few sooty’s, 1 catfish & no bara – so no keepers but was an interesting walk. Peter made us a yummy breaky on our return, we packed up camp then called into another spot where the pump is located – nice spot, a rather large water hole & 1000’s of ‘slater bugs’.

Slater bugs – just like worms are great for your garden living on organic matter & returning nutrients to the soil. They are known as woodlice or pill bugs. There was 1000’s of them everywhere along the river bank near where the pump was located, none were at the spot where we camped.

I was lucky enough to be able to spend 5 days in Kununurra with Ben & Sawyer(grandson), Mum was in Perth for a netball carnival, had great times with Sawyer, what an amazing buba – thankx Ben & Erin. xxx

Also was able to catch up with some ‘Lamonds’ in Katherine – was wonderful, thankx Mary, Gary, Carole & Costa for giving us some more great memories. 🙂