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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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Ok, I gave fair warning, so here's number 1 name and shame.
We have NOT sold bransfords tackle shop a single garfish, mullet, or anything else for many years!
False advertising!!!
@followers
Haha that’s funny as π€¦π½ A
Damn son get em.
Free advertising
When you cant get the real thing.
I had a run in with these guys... approached to sell a local product but chose to stock the exact same product from WA... support local they say!
Standard operating procedure
Hopefully the other sellers haven't got that ridiculous markup also
You'll just get blocked.
Shame I know how hard you work for them bad boys
I seen the picture today and was like wow there stocking good bait , every other picture they have average gar. But it’s just click bait hey π€¦βοΈπ€¦βοΈ name and shame them.
Hard to find a product prepared so professionally, shame to see dickheads tarnish your brand. Keep up the good work, I will definitely think twice before heading into any shop doing this.
It would seem that the post I commented on, highlighting the fact is it false advertising, has been deleted. Another one still appears as last I checked. Poor form, definitely.
This bloke is a wanker! I won a rod and reel in a raffle a few years back and when I rocked up to pick the prize up , it was a combo completely different from the one advertised in the comp! Refused to take it and told him I’ll wait for the original prize! No bloody joke it was over a year of me calling him each time I was home and getting all the excuses under the sun on why he’s got no shipments! I eventually got the $ value of the reel in cash off him and haven’t been back!
Not good mate.
Bransfords used to be a great tackle shop when Keith had it
Not just using an old pic? Your gar are definitely promo photo worthy
βοΈ Gar Wars
Yeah, that’s shit form…. Good on ya for calling them out.
Thats just not on
False advertising aside, look at the blue in those tails!! Best gar money can buy!
No way! I knew they were a bit full of shit, but this is absolutely fucked.
Cairns Post
Pity you don’t have better things to do.
Did you paint the spots on these ones too Keith π€£
Bit of a quality check today. I'm sure they'll workπ
I know a lot of people eat the pin bones but nah, I'll pass on eating fish bones....
If you haven't tried eating garfish, you're missing out. Bloody good eating π― and not that hard to prepare. Took me about 5 minutes to do 4 big gars, which fed the 3 of us for dinner.
I saw these in Nilands book. Neat. Wish someone was doing what you do near me.
Do you ever stop πππ
Good work legend
Yep i would eat em
They look alrighty mate!
Next challenge for you Chris Jeeze I miss being out to sea And fresh fish
Flying fish are awesome too
Sea gar is even better .
Hey Chris they look clean asπare they bait packs or do you pack all the small fish under the food safe processes? I was always told due to processing it wasn't for food consumption.
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Yep. Tried fresh garfish caught and cooked up at Molongle Creek Boat Club many year's ago and it was amazing π
They look very tasty mate
We used to gut them, then roll them out with a beer bottle or rolling pin and that separates the bones from the flesh and you can pull the whole skeleton out and have bone free fillets.
Love garfish yum
Yumm yumm
I used to serve them like this in Adelaide many years ago, only difference would be rolling an oyster in the fillets.
Looks good!
When I was a little kid I used to spend hours catching gar off the Picnic Bay jetty. Loved eating them………………..
Perfection Chris…. Nicely done ππ½ππ½
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 π€¦ββοΈ
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.....π
A warning to any business that does it, with table fish or bait- I'll start naming and shaming if it keeps happening π«΅
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!π
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 π
Your gar and other bait are outstanding best there is .
Chris Bolton Fishing in the media!
