Jamin Forbes was born in Wagga Wagga in 1970. Once old enough to hold a rod, he began fishing the Murrumbidgee River and its tributaries with his family.

Jamin fishes whenever he gets spare time and has spent the past twenty years perfecting lure fishing techniques to suit the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers, fishing almost exclusively for Murray cod and golden perch (and enjoying the incidental captures of the totally protected trout cod).

His first book Reel Time (a collection of fishing stories focussing on the humorous aspects of fishing trips) was published in September 2004.

Jamin's second book Fishing and Camping Murrumbidgee River Gundagai to Narrandera (co-written with Martin Asmus) was released in September 2006. This book details sixty publicly accessible reserves, state forests, and travelling stock reserves (TSR) along the Murrumbidgee River. Following the success of Fishing and Camping Murrumbidgee River Gundagai to Narrandera Jamin and Marty are currently finalising the next book in this series – Fishing and Camping Murrumbidgee River Narrandera to Balranald, and are planning to do a third in the series from Gundagai through Canberra.

Jamin is a regular contributor to Freshwater Fishing Magazine, with articles published on Hay Weir, Wagga Wagga Cod, Winter Fishing, Persistence in Freshwater Fishing, Bundigerry Creek and Trout Cod and also contributes fishing articles for 4x4 Trader Magazine, with articles published on Fishing the Fast Water at Wantabadgery, Murray cod at the ‘Dairy’, Fishing from Hay Weir to Wentworth, Bermagui and fishing ‘Way out West’.

In addition, Jamin shares a fishing column for the Daily Advertiser newspaper in Wagga and has appeared on Channel Nines ‘Fishing Australia’ with Rob Paxevanos.

Aside from fishing, Jamin has a Masters Degree in Biotechnology from Charles Sturt University, has worked as a Policy Advisor for a Federal Member of Parliament and currently works as a Revenue Analyst for Regional Express (REX).

Jamin Forbes
Telephone: (02) 6925 2008
Mobile: 0427 692 522
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Website: www.riverinasportfishing.com (www.riverinasportfishing.com)