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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.
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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.
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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Remember- if it hasn't got our name on it, it didn't come from us!! We didn't catch it, we didn't pack it!!
Every year we get messages saying something like "we bought your gar from ______ and they aren't your usual quality".... and this year its started already 🤦♂️
In the past we have stopped supplying certain businesses with bait, and also reef fish because of this sort of thing happening on a recurring basis. Buy a few packets of gar, or a couple of trout off us, but they're somehow still selling our fish weeks later.....😑
A warning to any business that does it, with table fish or bait- I'll start naming and shaming if it keeps happening 🫵
Have you been catching mullet?
How about Rockhampton mate would be great if you could supply us
Got the cryo going again mate
Name and shame mate because that’s not ok to misrepresent your product!
Naming and shaming should be more popular.
Quality Gar mate!👍
Perfect
Mate those gar look excellent. Would love to buy some. Any businesses in Cairns selling them?
Best quality x
Ya know it’s top table fish here - $80 kg ..
Best quality bait you can buy hands down. The bait you buy from Chris will catch you more fish, they are fresh, last longer, swim better and are much easier to rig.
Hey Chris Bolton Fishing I just finished my last lot of gar that I got from you that is about 3 years old I recon and still catching Spanish. Time to restock 😉
Your gar and other bait are outstanding best there is .
Almost that time again......
We'll start getting some gar into the usual places very soon! 👍
For locals heading out this weekend, there'll be some at Coastal Marine & Outdoors Innisfail this afternoon.
(We had cryovac machine problems last night, so they aren't our usual cryovac packs, but they're as fresh as it gets. They just wont last months in your freezer like they usually do. I'll refill the freezer with cryovac packs asap)
Cryovac problem being sorted right now. Once sorted we'll start catching and getting some out firstly to-
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I only want line caught gar this year thanks mate 😉
I like to bulk buy my gar before the end of the season , just like they buy all the shit tickets before a storm (-'
Back from the Barra up north 👍
Torque auto freezer is ready for a load 👌🏼
Best Marlin gar ever. Wish I could get them in SEQ
A short video of the process. This is obviously barra, but the same thing happens with all of our fish.
Once caught, every fish goes straight into live tanks — big tanks with plenty of room and constant water flow. From the tender tank they’re transferred into tanks on the main boat, where they stay alive and in perfect condition until unload day.
On unload day, (usually a Sunday) the fish are taken from the tanks one by one, ikejime spiked, bled, and brined. First into a brine while they bleed, then transferred into a second clean, blood-free brine.
Blood is what causes that strong “fishy” smell. Remove the blood properly and a box of fish smells like a freshly opened oyster — sweet, salty, clean, and like the ocean itself 👌
From the second brine, the fish are loaded into our vehicles and transported to our coldroom at Kurrimine Beach for packing.
Packing is a process in itself. Usually there’s four or five of us involved. Dad is always there carefully laying fish out on the bench while I pick through them for particular customers — everyone has preferred sizes and specifications. Every fish is gently patted clean and dry before going into a box. Kim tapeing and doing the paperwork. Evie filling in where needed.
Once packed, they’re on the next flight ✈️ to restaurants all around Australia. Any sold locally — and there’s always some — goes by road transport. Sometimes even by helicopter to Orpheus Island 🏝
Up north we work on 7-day turnaround trips: 4-5 days fishing, 2-3 days unloading, packing, cleaning, refuelling, loading ice, and travelling back to the fishing grounds. Operating like this in a remote location takes a bloody lot of effort and a bloody lot of organisation. No time to switch off.......
What we do has never been about quantity. If quantity was the goal, we’d do things very differently.
It’s about quality, sustainability, respect for the fish, and achieving the best possible return from a limited natural resource.
A lot of fishermen claim they’re fishing to provide cheap fish for the community.
Not us.
We’re not about cheap. Cheap isn't good, and good isn't cheap........
Thanks for sharing Chris .. Really Admire your process 👌
Quality Barra right there 💪
Top quality product right there 👌
Awesome
Top shelf
Any reason you don't shenkei- jimi as well Chris? would provide an even better product.
Garry Dick
Cheers Peter
Chris Bolton Fishing how did you figure out where to iki jimi them? This is a lot different to bottom fish like trout and reds?
Great stuff Chris👍
Good one Chris, I think your customers would have a better appreciation of what it takes to get as good a fish on your plate as you will get anywhere. One thing for sure is I would go broke with the amount of Barra I catch lately 🤣
See you got a good deckie there Chris Bolton Fishing🤣
Great stuff Chris.
So many good learnings there Chris! I know we eat better quality fish at home now by treating them with the respect they deserve. Shelf life in the fridge is now well over a week for fillets.
well done buddy Great job. Quality
Great work.
Hi Chris Been a follower for a long time. Love your work and attention to your fish. Any idea where I could purchase your product in Sydney (retail). Nothing like wild caught Barra
Jacob Stanton check out the kill & bleed technique
Beautiful product there mate. 👏
Can’t get better quality fish than that. Nice fish mate 💯
Nice
Perfect product as always mate 🍻
Australia's best of the best mate.
Great work 👏 this is how stocks will improve no nets just talent allows some of the bigger fish to still migrate for spawning to keep rivers stocked 👍
Proper looked after, reason why everyone who has “fishy” tasting fish is it’s never looked after properly. Good stuff mate
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