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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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2025 Weipa Billfish Tournament.
'Hours of boredom, minutes of mayhem' was about right for us this year. Day 1 we went 6/6/6. Day 2 was 8/7/6. Day 3, well we didn't even see a fish!! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Overall, a very very enjoyable and well run tournament. A must do, if you ever get a chance.
Jump over to Weipa Billfish Club Inc. for all results.
I posted a couple of stories during the tournament, and had a few people question survival rates of released fish.
If you flick through the pics, you'll see a recapture from a fish I caught during last year's tournament.
This year on the 3rd day, there was a fish recaptured that was tagged on the 1st day of the tournament!! Just 52hrs apart!!
Goes to show, if done correctly, catch and release line fishing has very very little impact on the fish ๐
Christian Mikic
Congrats mate Awsome fishing
Well done mate….next year we are there!
Congrats lads
Well done Chris, Duncan and Tom ๐
Congratulations ๐๐Well done ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐๐
Good job Chris, Tom & Duncan! Hope the young guru behaved himself and didn’t argue with the skipper - more than 20 times!!!
Good to meet you Chris and well done mate, top notch fishing ๐
Nice work Bolto, back to back for you guys?
Well done xo
Those recapture rates are remarkable! Great work to all the anglers๐
Three days fishing the Tournament with 14 boats and 40 anglers all supplied with Chriss Bolton “ food grade” garfish, 57 sailfish tagged. Thanks for a great weekend, Chriss and don’t forget you are the second best deckhand I’ve had on the Tournaments champion boat NO BULL for the fourth year in a row. I have tattooed you in for the 2026 Weipa Billfish Tournament, October Kings birthday long weekend!!!
I've picked up a lot of bottles (usually plastic) and a lot of rubbish from the ocean, but this is a first!
#messageinabottle
That’s cool. Hope you email her.
I found one in cyclone Larry clean up down at mission beach
That’s pretty cool man ๐๐ผ
Coley Lewis
That 10 year old would be thrilled to receive an email ๐
Wow only a bit over one year to travel from Tonga to here. That's over 2300 NM.
Where were you when you picked it up
That’s cool ๐
That’s awesome!!
Did you email her
That's cool! Did you email her?
That’s epic
Tracy Natasha David
I have been thinking of doing this myself.
Rebecca
We found a message no a bottle at Ella Bay about 30 yrs ago
You should get Evie to Email Freya Chris she’d have a Penpal for life โค๏ธ
I found one North of Cooktown a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the email address was too faded to read so I couldn’t get a message back
Wow, that’s awesome, Same age as Evie now too… Pen Pals โค๏ธ
That’s very cool Chris.
That’s cool Chris!
That's awesome mate ๐๐ผ
Hi Chris . This is Freyas Mum๐ค. I wanted to let you know that she received your email that you had found her message in the bottle. And I can tell you she was absolutely ecstatic !! We were all so surprised . We were just getting off a flight from Canada to New Zealand and she tried to send a reply in the airport without realising she’d lost internet . We are on a three year trip around the world on 100 ft sailboat. We had already done the Caribbean, Panama, Galapagos , Marqueses Islands, French Polynesia and Aitutaki when she threw in the bottle in the water just before we arrived in Tonga . Since then the boat has been to Fiji , New Zealand, Vanuatu, Cairns , Indonesia , Borneo and is currently in the Philippines. We are just part time travelling with the boat now . I unfortunately lost Facebook and the photo diary of our travels about 15 months ago๏ฟผ, but decided to start a new account recently and try to find you ๐ I will email you a video of her putting the message in the bottle and throwing it in . When we get to Japan I think she might have to send off another message . Thank you for taking the time to reply. Best wishes Anna
Watch the video (taken yesterday), and then have a read.
Heres my opinion as to what caused this........๐ค
Barramundi travel a lot, especially in floods/wet seasons. They have a very strong natural instinct, or ability I guess, of NOT getting trapped in lagoons and waterholes that dry out, so what happened here? How did so many barra completely stuff up, and end up in a waterhole which dries out?
Well, after walking around looking at the lay of the land, and the road, it became fairly obvious to me.
The road that goes right through the middle of this low lying area/swamp, used to get very boggy. I've driven this road many times over the years, and been bogged myself in that exact spot. (I've also driven through it bone dry many times.)
How do we fix a low lying boggy section of road? Build it up, build it up a couple of meters high so it's passable most of the year, that'll fix it.
These barra would have moved up into this billabong/swamp during the wet, when the water level was far higher than the road. As the water level started to recede, they would naturally find their way to deeper water, permanent water. Problem now is, theres a dam wall, ie, a road raised a couple of metres high, blocking the path to permanent, year round water. No culverts, no pipes, nothing....๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Hundreds, probably thousands of mature barramundi, trapped with nowhere to go, facing imminent death, all in the name of progress......๐ค
There was not a single dead fish on the 'downstream' side of the road, the side that still had an open path back to the river....
I'm no Marine biologist, so it's possible that my theory is wrong, maybe there's another reason, but I don't think so.....๐คทโโ๏ธ
Looks like only 24 hrs ago if that
Seen the same thing few years back other side of kalpowar crossing there’s a swamp there was deed Barra everywhere
Plenty of waterholes along the river and lagoons up there that have the same outcome.
Anything wetland related to Barra movements should be left as they were.
No oxygen in water probably cause of death
That time of year
Life mate
Blackwater event,
Alge levels builds up in hot shallow water Causing oxygen levels to drop rapidly Or Waters that silted up It’s that dense the water it chokes em!! Believe it or not !!!
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Bolto, that’s mad. Imagine the numbers in that swamp still. Let these douch bags know what needs to happen
Definitely needs a culvert or pipe or fish ladder etc. They have probably been traveling that route for eons, and then suddenly it changed.
Fish ladders exist for a reason... all our bass streams have them nowadays for reasons similar to this
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Seen this in a few places in the Gulf now. Changes year to year with different waterholes like they get caught out. Never nice to see
Fresh as...with totally sunken eyes???.??
Couple quick haul shot would stop that
That's sad. Humans are always stuffing up nature. Australia has one of the highest extinction rates. People want huge homes. Recently I have seen a lot of cassowary habitat cut down for housing development. You would think there was enough cleared land.
Seen something similar on the upstream side of the road near the Gilbert River crossing north of Karumba in the Gulf.
I wonder if the Chemtrails have anything to do with it?
Lack of oxygen in the stagnant water would have contributed to this
Low oxygen levels in the waterhole will kill fish happens every year .
Get a fishing rod out and safe afew from going to waste might be a good option
Where’s the morons running the water authority? Hopefully this has been reported mate
Happens all the time in the top end, every dry season, when river pools, billabongs and swamps dry out, the barra die in their 1000s to become food for predators while locals collect them during the early stages. It's not unusual and regardless if dam walls are present they will stay in these dry season pools. Crocs are normally there in numbers also and will either walk overland to permanent water or dig in wet spots, like under paperbark tree roots to wait for the life giving rains.
Chris Bolton Fishing in the media!
