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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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You’ve learnt how to catch them, now learn how to look after them. 🎣
What you do after landing a fish makes a huge difference to how it tastes, how it looks, and how it lasts 💯
As our followers know, over the years, Kim and I have built our fishing business around quality over quantity. Supplying fish to some of Australia’s best chefs and restaurants, and of course, supplying premium quality bait to fishermen right around Australia 🇦🇺
Now I’m putting that experience into THE PERFECT FISH — From Hook to Plate, an online course for those who want to respect their catch and get the very best from it.
I'll show and explain in detail, everything about quality, from the second a fish comes out of the water, to the minute it gets to the kitchen. Ikejime, bleeding, brining, storage, and a whole lot more.
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Done. Looking forward to it
Great stuff! All the best with this makes sense to me 🙌🏼
Awesome footage mate! Can’t wait for more
Finally , a proper fish handling course. It should be a must do for all fishos to improve their previous catch. 🤙🤙
The quality of your catch still blows me away
Good on ya legend
All. Chefs should subscribe this pro fisherman is a legend. Both for catching and handling the. Most amazing product
Plenty around today so I thought I'd catch one
Action garrented
F wish I could get fish like Chris, well done mate👍
Juggsy would have loved that one Chris 😔😔
Well done Champ! Handline no less. Brings back memories.😃😃
A nice Spanish Mackrel
Good work Mate.
Lovely fish, great eating
The old hand line was my preferred way to fish. Loved them
Old school
Nice Spainard
Old school perfection
Went out on the Brother in-laws boat and had a crack fishing for the first time. Caught this...now he's not talking to me 😂
A very interesting fishing "style"! I assume the he has someone working full time to untangle the fishing line, or does he just throw them away? Definitely a bit of Peter Garrett in there.
Just nice work from a pro👍
Hard work on a hand line.
How's ya hands bro tough as good skills
Cleanest brain spike i have ever witnessed! 🤯🔥
How many trout dory’s have twins? Man’s an operator.
Beautiful
Nice catch, I think I know where Peter Garrett got his dance moves from. 🤣
My fav fish to catch and eat. I like how you brain spike him. Precise. 👍. Would you then bleed ?
Mad if you don’t! Great table fish , had some yesterday for lunch 👍
Nice one
Joe cocker
🔥 get up them
Just a couple.......and you can't see a quarter of them in this video!!
And before anyone says it- no, there was absolutely no scraps, fish, meat, anything whatsoever thrown into the water. Anchored here, NOT fishing!!
Sharks were caught back in the day before being protected. Protection means that we eat the acceptable reef species and leave the sharks that breed up. When we used to take shark, we chopped off the head, the only wasted bit with guts. Then we chopped off the fins for one market and kept the barrels for another market. Which meant that nearly all fish, reef and shark were both taken from the sea not leaving one species especially good predators to multiply. I personally believe that catfish in our systems are doing the same thing. We don't eat them, we let them go free and now we are finding that catfish are more than plentiful everywhere we go. Sometimes, I believe that human management has failed in not thinking about the repercussions of not taking some species. M.
That size barrelled straight away,then ice slurry,fillet,skin ,scallop up,then breadcrumb and deepfry,,You could call it cobia,jew,snapper and You will confuse many people.Obviously smelly in the box and usaully baggin out on Way better looking fish for the box.Definately need to start processing them bigtime around southern Queensland and the Great Barrier reef marine park..Im putting my dint in the population,legally..Unfortunately alot off my 3m plus ones dont realeae that well 👍 😄 😎
Export there fins use there body's fish cocktails problem solved
Torres straights most places
Dynamite mate
HMMM what hope do us passionate recreational fishers really have. The pollies really need to pull their finger out, dismiss the misinformation coming from minority green groups and do something to reduce shark numbers. MJ
Sharkfin Soup Yum
Looks like their almost extinct.
Good target practice
Bait coming to the light and then the sharks possibly
Clearly the shark population is critically endangered. 🙄🙄🙄
The endangered sharks population. Let’s start finning and export.
man/boats have created a false food source they react to the boats out there...............im not in favor of believing too many.............nature has its way and man has stuffed it up.........
They look like rats on a corn bag..i reckon they know the vibration of minnkota motors too..
Out of control
In the water a unimportant member of the food chain, but served with hot chips 👏👏
I always thought my dads old fishing hat ( jungle hat Vietnam) Smelt so fishy that it attracted the fish Maybe they can smell lol 😂😂
Learnt when they Hear boat motor, look for a easy feed 😒
David Schubert
Brought home a smaller Pigeye/bullshark recently..Ourselves and others all thought it was more then acceptable flakey, white boneless fillets...Shark was definned, gutted aand head removed upon capture and had absolutely no ammonia smell or taste about it...It does taste better with some seasoning for flavor but I'm surprised its not more on the menu..
Id love to be allowed to set up a winch on the front of the reef boat and be able to sell them. Even a dollar or 2 per kg for dogfood would definitely see enough removed for a little better harmony to some areas of the GBR
They should be processed or culled to reduce the number
Is there a market for these??
Cull required
Just shows the necessity to introduce a commercial shark fishery.
Chris Bolton Fishing in the media!
