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Chris Bolton Fishing
Whether you are a chef at a 5-star restaurant looking to make every meal special, or a fisherman wanting to have the best chance of hooking that special fish, you won’t be disappointed with the quality of our product.
We bring to you some of the finest quality wild caught fish to ever leave the ocean.
Every single fish we catch is handled with the care and respect it deserves.
Every fish we sell is sashimi grade, the best of the best.
We are a small, family owned and operated fishing business based at Kurrimine Beach, Nth Queensland. I am the skipper and fisherman on every single fishing trip. With help from my partner Kim, my father Wayne at times, and 1 or 2 deckhands, I am hands on with every part of our business. From catching the fish, cleaning boats, taking orders, packing fish, or just having a good old yarn with customers, I am there. I believe this is the only way to ensure everything is up to the standard our customers expect.
Our line-caught reef fish are killed instantly and humanely using the ike-jime method. Fish are bled well and immediately placed into a salt ice brine to bring their temperature down to 2oC. Once this is achieved, every fish is gently hand-packed, one by one into our custom-made fibreglass eskies and covered with flake ice.
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Having small, fast boats means we don’t catch large quantities. It means our fishing time is very short – very rarely more than 24 hours fishing before returning to port, with some trips as short as 6 hours.
When returning to port, we don’t unload at the wharf. Our boats are winched onto a trailer, towed by an ex-sugar cane haul-out tractor, and the catch is driven right to the door of our coldroom and packing facility, which was designed and made by myself to suit the way we operate. Our catch is unloaded from the boat and immediately packed for transport, with minimal handling and in the shortest possible timeframe.
Air freight is our preferred method of transport, unless we are supplying to the local area of course.
Premium Quality
We can have any and every fish we catch delivered to anyone, anywhere in Australia within hours of being caught…
All at premium quality.
Wild Caught Fish
Wild caught fish is one of the healthiest foods on the planet.
These fish aren’t fed processed pellets, or had any hormones or antibiotics in their system.
They have lived a life most of us dream of — a life in the clean waters of the Coral Sea, amongst the beautiful Great Barrier Reef.
Every day they are eating delicacies such as squid, sea urchins, prawns, sardines, fusiliers, garfish, crabs and more. Is it any wonder they taste so good?! 100% pure organic, natural food. The way nature intended.
If healthy eating, premium quality, and sustainability are your concerns, be concerned no longer.
Supplying Australia with healthy, sustainably and responsibly caught, premium quality fish is our job. And we take our job very seriously.
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Proud to be Reef Guardian Fishers
As a commercial fishing business, we rely on a healthy, sustainable environment.
We believe if we do the best we can by the environment, the environment we rely on will do the best for us as well.
The Great Barrier Reef is more than just a place we rely on for our business, its our life, its our families life, and we want it to stay that way for generations to come.
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Heres my opinion as to what caused this........๐ค
Barramundi travel a lot, especially in floods/wet seasons. They have a very strong natural instinct, or ability I guess, of NOT getting trapped in lagoons and waterholes that dry out, so what happened here? How did so many barra completely stuff up, and end up in a waterhole which dries out?
Well, after walking around looking at the lay of the land, and the road, it became fairly obvious to me.
The road that goes right through the middle of this low lying area/swamp, used to get very boggy. I've driven this road many times over the years, and been bogged myself in that exact spot. (I've also driven through it bone dry many times.)
How do we fix a low lying boggy section of road? Build it up, build it up a couple of meters high so it's passable most of the year, that'll fix it.
These barra would have moved up into this billabong/swamp during the wet, when the water level was far higher than the road. As the water level started to recede, they would naturally find their way to deeper water, permanent water. Problem now is, theres a dam wall, ie, a road raised a couple of metres high, blocking the path to permanent, year round water. No culverts, no pipes, nothing....๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Hundreds, probably thousands of mature barramundi, trapped with nowhere to go, facing imminent death, all in the name of progress......๐ค
There was not a single dead fish on the 'downstream' side of the road, the side that still had an open path back to the river....
I'm no Marine biologist, so it's possible that my theory is wrong, maybe there's another reason, but I don't think so.....๐คทโโ๏ธ
Looks like only 24 hrs ago if that
Seen the same thing few years back other side of kalpowar crossing there’s a swamp there was deed Barra everywhere
Plenty of waterholes along the river and lagoons up there that have the same outcome.
Anything wetland related to Barra movements should be left as they were.
No oxygen in water probably cause of death
That time of year
Life mate
Blackwater event,
Alge levels builds up in hot shallow water Causing oxygen levels to drop rapidly Or Waters that silted up It’s that dense the water it chokes em!! Believe it or not !!!
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Bolto, that’s mad. Imagine the numbers in that swamp still. Let these douch bags know what needs to happen
Definitely needs a culvert or pipe or fish ladder etc. They have probably been traveling that route for eons, and then suddenly it changed.
Fish ladders exist for a reason... all our bass streams have them nowadays for reasons similar to this
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Seen this in a few places in the Gulf now. Changes year to year with different waterholes like they get caught out. Never nice to see
Fresh as...with totally sunken eyes???.??
Couple quick haul shot would stop that
That's sad. Humans are always stuffing up nature. Australia has one of the highest extinction rates. People want huge homes. Recently I have seen a lot of cassowary habitat cut down for housing development. You would think there was enough cleared land.
Seen something similar on the upstream side of the road near the Gilbert River crossing north of Karumba in the Gulf.
I wonder if the Chemtrails have anything to do with it?
Lack of oxygen in the stagnant water would have contributed to this
Low oxygen levels in the waterhole will kill fish happens every year .
Get a fishing rod out and safe afew from going to waste might be a good option
Where’s the morons running the water authority? Hopefully this has been reported mate
Happens all the time in the top end, every dry season, when river pools, billabongs and swamps dry out, the barra die in their 1000s to become food for predators while locals collect them during the early stages. It's not unusual and regardless if dam walls are present they will stay in these dry season pools. Crocs are normally there in numbers also and will either walk overland to permanent water or dig in wet spots, like under paperbark tree roots to wait for the life giving rains.
We're looking for a crew member!
No commercial fishing experience needed. Ideally, I'd rather someone with no commercial experience.
At the moment we're looking for a deckhand, not a dory operator. (If the right person comes along we'll have you trained up and in a dory within a few months)
This is basically a full time position, not a 'work when I feel like it' position.
Trips are anywhere from 1 day to 6 days, and at times you'll be required to do consecutive trips, possibly 3 or 4 weeks work with multiple unloads in between.
To begin with, it wll be all reef fishing, from Mourilyan Harbour.
Next year we will be working from various places throughout Cape York, targeting Barramundi.
Must be reliable and responsible.
Must not be a drug addict or an alcoholic. Zero tolerance.....
And for the inexperienced, make no mistake, this is PROFESSIONAL FISHING!! It's a far cry from going fishing with mates. Don't waste our time if you think you're going on a casual fishing trip.
Over the years I've seen may young blokes think commercial fishing would be easy, but they've found out very quickly just how wrong they were! If you're lazy, got no respect, or not prepared to grit your teeth and do some hard yards at times, you won't last long with us.
If you're keen, reliable, you've got respect, and you love fishing, you'll have the opportunity to have a lot of fun, and you'll learn more than you can imagine! And you'll also make reasonable $$.
Anyone interested send us a message.
I'm fishing now so it wll take me some time to reply.
Cheers
Elroy Woods would a perfect lil mate if hes able! Keen as a frog in a sock for fishing he is!
Good luck Chris, hope you find the right person. Just shared this to Fishing Mission Beach.
My dream job
Harrison Coltman
Lisa Smith this could be the one your boy is after.
Marcelin Djibril Doublegras t’as pas le mal de mer toi si ?!
I would love to work back on the ocean , im very interested in this position , im based in Townsville atm
Jack Hodgkins
Kayla Wastell
Tom Thomas Duffy
Perfect place to start out.
So no beers or smoke could be out for a month or more straight . Good luck with that
Bling Lewis
That is probably the best job description I have ever read. Cuts through all the shit and lays the cards flat on the table. Wish I was 30 years younger. Good luck.
Charlie Eland
Boni Knoxville
Chris, love your honesty all job interview/ recruitment should be like this. Gone are the days that some people remember they have to work for their dollars! Hope you find the right person
Would love to do this but I'm half way around the world
5%
Dave Sacca Maclachlan
Message sent
Michael Rosendahl me
Is there anything special I would need to do to get a position on the express??
Philip Nunan
Il run the gps plotter
As with almost any fish, the catching part is only a very small pat of the process...... the catching part is the easy part.
And also, the same thing with any form of fishing just about everywhere these days, the explosion in shark numbers is having a significant affect on what we do. That of course also affects costs.....
How much do you sell them for a cartoon thanks
Taking 'professional' fishing to another level!!! ๐คค๐
Where u at mate
Beautiful
I’ve never had a bad batch of bait from you yet even your seconds look better quality then the other rubbish you buy from the shops
Any of these heading to Townsville shops mate? Keen to buy some if so! ๐๐๐
Brother bring me up a box please next time your up ๐
Yep!! You’re a weapon Chris. Your leaps and bounds ahead of the rest.
In my opinion, these are the best gars available, and they're the only ones I use for Macs and BillFish.
Can I purchase the second grade ones off you please?
Are these available in Cairns Chris
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