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Fresh wild caught premium fish. 
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.
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.
Sustainability
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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We see quite a few fish with severe scarring of some sort.
I'd imagine it would be a tough life on the reef for a fish with no tail, but this one seemed to be managing. Looks to be fully healed.
It's slightly on the lean side bit not overly thin. It had a couple of different fish in its stomach so it was obviously still able to catch prey.
Tough animals that's for sure πͺ
Lucky trout. If you eat , you will gain his luck
Ha! Ha! Looks like he missed a gear with a big black tip behind him.
Wild!
Cod tried to eat maybe? Big mouths those things
Tough lil bugger πͺπ½
It's a disease caused by sewerage, the Burnett and Kolan was bad for this,what location was it caught in.
Brendan Farley
Looks like one I speared once. Need some prescription goggles
Chris Bolton Fishing ok what do you think caused it, if you are positive it's not a disease.
This guy was lucky
I got a barra a few years ago, had a stump where his tail was, fully healed over. Didn't have a clue what I'd hooked till I saw it. He didn't survive that encounter.
Steven Mungo Kirby
Imagine catching that and because it's tail is gone it's undersize
Here’s a nice one to keep you all happy
Tahni Cribb Kahu Jacob Pickering
stuck fish..
It had an easier life on the reef than in the esky π nice catch mate
Fish eat other fish. No tail,can't swim... Get eaten. ππ€
Spanish Mac bite for sure
Probably from the sharks that are supposedly endangered π€£
Obviously been hooked and bitten by a shark. Lucky enough to evade both captors.
Clint Kane
To many sharks they need to be culled out ,and the United Nations needs to stay out of Australia’s affairs
Jack Logan
Hope your not.going to feed that to anyone
We've just had the pleasure of staying at the amazing Orpheus Island Lodge for a few days, giving a team from πΊπΈ a hands on experience of what happens in a day at CB Fishing.
Safe to say the Americans were very impressed! And at the same time, a little surprised to see for themselves that the Great Barrier Reef is actually well and truly alive π
I won't give too much away about the purpose of this trip, but the reason we were privileged enough to be here comes back to one thing- the way we operate.
Someone told me once- do things well, even when no one's watching, and you'll be rewarded........π
So true Chris
Did u have shoes on at least π
Well deserved β€οΈ
How wonderful. Well done. Looks like a fantastic trip xx
Done well mate and hope your hard work and sacrifice pays off for you πΊπΊ
What an experience, well done!
What a magical place
Last trip.
The tagged trout- 370mm when originally tagged, 510mm when recaptured.
140mm growth in 439 days. David Cox was the first to guess correctly.
For those interested, at 370mm, a coral trout weighs around 600gms. At 510mm, around 1.6kg, give or take a bit.
If I was to guess, I'd say that fish was, or is, only around 3yrs old.
Impressive growth rate.
Prime
Great info mate.
Brendan LaRiva Andy Huggett Ben Teitzel
Chris Bolton Fishing in the media!
