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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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Clear eyes, beautiful colour, a perfect intact slime coat, and no bruising or indentations.
Coral trout in the coldroom, about to be packed into airfreight boxes.
Looking every bit as good, if not better, than when they first came out of the water 👌
From the second they're caught, every step, every detail matters 💯
Quality over quantity. Always.
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Exceptional quality. Plain and simple.
Just amazing quality ,simply beautiful .
Insane colour looked after well 👌🙌
Beautifully presented
Bruh they look better than when they come out of the water.
Lovely Fishes
Just amazing quality
Tasty lill morsels
Wow those colours are incredible!
Jack Egan
Perfection !!
Thank you for the work that you do.
Where can we buy?
Awsome
Are these put straight in ice eskies or into a salt slurry??
Send some my way 😂
As always Chris Bolton Fishing leading the way in sustainable exceptional table fish. Cheers Bud.
stunning!
Yummmm
Beautifully kept CT’s ( work with them in Cairns) 😜🥰
Ikijime?🧐
Tony Stephenson because of the way the way I hold them, I always spike them on the left hand side. I just realised, all these pics are of right hand side, so no spike marks! 🤷♂️😃
King threadfin. Brainspike/ikejime, slowed to 1/8th speed.
A hole in the head doesn't necessarily mean things have been done humanely, or correctly......
One very common mistake I see made with brainspiking is pushing the spike in, then pulling it straight back out. Simply piercing the brain does more harm than good in my opinion!
You need to completely destroy the brain, and do it quickly, not just pierce it.
I've been filming a lot of this lately, with a lot of different species. It will all be shown and explained in detail in my online course.
Link in bio
#ikejime #linecaught #qualityoverquantity #theperfectfish
Yum yum. 😀😃 m
Gone away from the pipe handle mate?
Nah…pretty sure a spike to the brain will do the job 😉
High 80cm PCB barra from a recent trip.
Bit of a 🐊 bite on it so I thought I'd keep it for ourselves and give some away to friends.
I'll post another video in a week or so when I pull it out of the dry ager and cut it up.
If you're interested in knowing more about what I'm doing here, or want to know more about handling your catch and reducing waste, jump on the waitlist for 'The Perfect Fish'. I won't bother anyone with annoying emails, it just means you'll be the first to know when its ready, and maybe get something extra 😉
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Bloody next level mate 👌
How did u just take the scales and not then skin?
Add any salt or just straight in? Nice and clean 👌🏽 👍
Awesome mate.
Looks good Bolto 🤘💪
Gday mate, top video! Hey, when bled and kept on ice how long will barra last in a good quality esky ya reckon? I keep em in the shade n I salt me ice and gotta ife maker so change it or top it when/if needed..
A trout trom the last trip, one day before the closure.
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