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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Have you ever caught a purple trout Chris?

Beauties!

Beautiful

Yummy food πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹

Lovely clear eyed fresh fish Chris - well done as always πŸ’œπŸŒŸπŸ™πŸŽŠπŸ˜„

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Its been a big week!
Well start getting some bait into the usual tackle stores throuout Nth Queensland and Northern Territory this coming week.
As always, perfect quality. Carefully removed individually from the net, packed one by one, snap frozen, all in the same night. 
All food grade, almost too good for bait, almost.....

It's been a big week!
We'll start getting some bait into the usual tackle stores throuout Nth Queensland and Northern Territory this coming week.
As always, perfect quality. Carefully removed individually from the net, packed one by one, snap frozen, all in the same night.
All food grade, almost too good for bait, almost.....
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Andrew Elworthy

I better put an order in. πŸ‘ They certainly bring in those rare endangered Spanish Mac’s🀣 Got one a week or so back using one of those reaper heads And your gar. Had just put the rod in the holder and bam πŸ‘

Do you have any wolfhearing

Do you get many jumbo gar

It’s a beautiful thing!

Best I put in an order. LUV your fresh gar. Won't be much longer, and the Juvenile Blacks will be up here.

Best bait in NQ!!

To good for bait I’d be eating them

Unbelievably fresh and like you just caught it , keep up the good work Chris and team πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘πŸ‘

Reminds me of being a kid Dad & Mum bought the bait gar, & we ate it as back then we were dirt poor. The way things are going I will be buying it again as everything is so expensive these days

Are you getting any small ones

Cameron Yates Josh Robinson

Jared Groom

Wow

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I get asked a lot about these Garmin electric motors so heres a little update for anyone interested.
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That's the go worth there money πŸ‘

Deakon Muscat

Paul Williamson

If that's not a testament to the product then I don't know what is 😎 I will be using this example for customers wanting to buy one.

Zane smith

that made me feel good after my last two different brand ,mine been good

Aiden Riddle

Ryno Johnston

Ian Moody

Wayne Vella

Allan Mccombe

Best on the market Chris , took your advice mines unreal

Are they auto deploy Chris, or manual. ?

Thanks for the review mate. Sounds like an improved replacement for Minn Kota . Not only do they have issues with water getting into the steering housing and difficulty dealing with BLA for warranty, the replacement parts are so expensive. Especially when you have control boards fail after 3 years and they are rev.f and the new one you buy for $600 is a rev.j. obviously they know there is an issue with it to bring out new revs but have the hide to charge you a crazy price for something that just lasts out of warranty. Anyway, this will be my new electric motor.

Chris Bolton Fishing you’ve sold me. πŸ‘πŸ‘

Steve Brenda Plath

Well that just sold me on the Garmin, over the other brand letting me down ,if you can't kill it with what you do sounds like the goods πŸ‘

Ian Moody Sportfishing Charters

What batteries do u run mate or how often do u replace the batteries on 4000 hrs

Hey Chris should they still work if you leave the remote at home

Ree Ce

Ardyn KeoughπŸ˜‰πŸ€©

Nice work Chris πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»

Well done Chris and no doubt your treatment of your equipment helps too … happy fishing πŸŒŸπŸ’œπŸ™πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ“Έ

Thanks Chris πŸ‘

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