Bass Forever

For the first time ever, Glen Lau--legendary angler, filmmaker and producer--tells the story of his life and of how big bass live, feed, and procreate. With the help of his friend Ken Duke, executive editor of Bassmaster publications, Glen gives freely from his 50+ years of experience with only the largest bass, and how big bass are affected by the weather and moon, the seasons, water temperature, and numerous other factors. He details the kind of lures that are effective for the biggest bass, how to fish them properly, and how a bass' senses work and how it effects lure presentation.
You'll learn how he tried (and almost succeeded) in raising a world-record bass and what it taught him about how huge bass act. You'll discover Glen's tips on the importance of casting, boat position, effective anchoring, learning from your mistakes, and persistence. Glen argues that good anglers are made, not born, and explains how to find big bass, how to fish for them, and ultimately how to be a successful big bass angler.
Along the way, you'll learn many fascinating things about Glen's life. About how he taught himself to be an underwater camera man and became so proficient his photos graced the covers of hundreds of magazines. How he caught a potential world-record bass through his camera lens in California. About many of the largest bass caught during his lifetime, and his successful foray into the tackle business. Of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of his films Bigmouth and Bigmouth Forever, a movie that Ray Scott has called "the best film ever made about anything." And you'll learn of his four-decade friendship with Homer Circle, the most iconic angler of the second half of the twentieth century, and who wrote the introduction.
This hardcover book includes over 80 stunning full color underwater photos from Glen's extensive library, showing big bass at all stages of development: at rest, mating, and feeding.

An abandoned farm in Homer Glen has been taken over and made into a history park. All of the buildings still remain on the property.

Marian statue in front of Our Mother of Good Counsel Catholic Church, Homer Glen, IL.

Complete 5-volume VHS set including "Bigmouth (The Original)" [50 min], "Surface Lures and Buzz Baits" [30 min], "Feeding Habits of Bass" [30 min], "Bass in Heavy Cover" [30 min], and "Bigmouth Forever" [45 min]. (From back cover) BIGMOUTH: This documentary has received many national awards and critical acclaim as the most significant film ever produced on the life cycle of the largemouth bass. BIGMOUTH has awed fishermen and fisheries scientists alike." SURFACE LURES AND BUZZ BAITS: Learn tap-water bass fishing secrets from fishing experts Homer Circle, Al Lindner and Rick Clunn." FEEDING HABITS OF BASS: "Join Circle, Lindner and Clunn for dramatic underwater sequences and heart-thumping strikes that show why, when and how bass strike." BASS IN HEAVY COVER: "Techniques for catching bass where it's hard to fish: Learn from the experts. Your host Circle...catches trophy bass hiding in dense vegetation using live bait. Lindner and Roland Martin share their techniques for fishing those hard-to-fish areas. This video lets you watch lure action from the bass' point of view." BIGMOUTH FOREVER: It's been 25 years since the introduction of the classic video about the life and history of the largemouth bass called 'Bigmouth.' Now comes a new documentary...it combines years of research and breathtaking underwater photography that include schools of giant bass-exposes several underwater hiding places of big bass-sensational slow-motion underwater photography showing the way bass strike lures-explores the phases of the moon and the effects on bass-shows forage and the effects they have on bass and their movements-plus several never before seen underwater habits of the bass..."