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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.
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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The π never lie...... No white 'burnt' patches, not a scale missing, no bruises. Every fish handled with care and respect. As they should be. π
Caught yesterday, packed this morning, these are now on there way to restaurants and resorts throughout π¦πΊ
Amazing mate, beautiful fish!
Glamour fish lad !!
Used to swear at Hussah now definite keepers
Neil Larsen
James Johnson
Got this tripletail a couple nights ago. Drifting around with a clump of seaweed in amongst a garfish school. It had a gutful of garfish, and took a bait straight up.
I see these from time to time drifting around the ocean with debris, but rarely catch them.
Saw a big plastic drum floating out near the shelf last winter. As we went to lift it in the boat a tripletail around 10kg came shooting out.
Always have a look at floating debris, never know what you'll find. And if it's plastic, take it home.
I've also picked up quite a few lures from tide lines lately. Halco laser pro's seem to be a dime a dozen out there!!
Debra Kerridge
Good job removing the rubbish mate. Pretty appalling seeing what gets dumped in our waterways.
Caught a 15 kg model off Bramston Chris, Tasted yummo. Kickn myself i never kept the skin and tanned it. Would have made a prime stubbie cooler and wallet. Oh well next time π
We hope to get out of Victoria soon and have a try at catching some fish. Lucky you being free to enjoy the fishing. Masks here by Wednesday!!
They get thick here in the wet season- NW weather.
Wow I thought they only a gulf fish π£ π±π
I have always associated them with being caught off the beach, have seen on Fishmonster Charters videos, they get heaps off stuff drifting when out chasing pelgaics is the USA
Chris do you sell cooked muddies? Passing your place in a few days time.
I took a mate out off the sunny coast and there’s was one swimming around the boat, he grabbed a pillie as soon as it was put in front of him. Wasn’t sure on size limit so we let it go. Found out after there are good eating.
We tracked a blue drum out around Gannet Cay for a couple of days and eventually retrieved a full drum of hydraulic oil Bugger we were hoping for cash or drugs
A lot of people ask my thoughts on how fast these garfish grow, and how old they are, how fast they breed etc.
I've always thought they grow very fast. At the start of the season there's an abundance of smaller fish. Within a couple of months, the average size has increased quite a lot.
The screenshots are from research done in Egypt, but specifically done on 'Hemiramphus far', which is the black-barred or 5spot garfish.
Yes, this species is caught pretty much worldwide, close to the equator. They are also one of very few fish that have managed to migrate to new areas through the Suez canal!!
The mesh they used to catch these fish was far smaller than the mesh size I use, which would explain the smaller sized fish, and lack of larger gar.
Contrary to popular belief, you won't catch anything and everything in just any net. A certain mesh size will only catch certain size fish. And that goes for any fish- barra, garfish, mullet, whatever.
Anyway, if you look at these graphs, you'll understand why I use larger mesh, and why I catch or sell very few small garfish.
Firstly, at 20cm or less, they may not get a chance to breed. Sexual maturity is reached at around 22cm and just over 1yr of age. Like any fish, take them before they get a chance to spawn at least once and you're headed for disaster.
Secondly, catching smaller fish is a bloody lot of work. Catching 20cm garfish weighing only 40gms means a bloody lot of fish to get any amount of kg when you pull them from the net 1 at a time! Also a lot of work packing 1 by 1! π©
The average size we catch when targeting for bait is around 25-30cm, which going by this research is about 3yrs old, so most of them have spawned at least once. For food orders, I use a larger mesh again and the average size is 30-35cm.
Myself, I suspect they possibly grow faster and to a larger size here, but as far as I'm aware, very little research has been done on this species in Australia.
As long as we don't start seeing fishermen using small mesh and catching all the juveniles, I think the QLD stocks of 5spot will remain in good shape. Fast growing, early maturity, prolific breeders, short lifespan. Perfect ππππ
Awesome insight into a critical cog of the food chain there mate. Thanks for the read π
Thanks for some insight - I buy your bait it's always spot on.
Cheers for the couple handfuls the other night mate. Hopefully can convert into a few beakys once the weather comes good.
Great info mate! Yet, another thing I had no idea about! Thank you.
I seen a 5 spot up the Torres straits that was easily 60cm long and as round as a beer can. It was huge for a gar
Do you even sleep? π Great read!
Great info mate π
Agree very interesting Chris!
Nicholas Jenkins this bloke worth following old mate
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