PRATTVILLE — Although Prattville’s Russ Lane plies both his passion and his vocation on lakes all over the nation as a Bassmaster Elite Pro, Lane honed his skills on the rivers and lakes in Alabama. On the lower end of that lake, in the hot summertime the water clarity is better than any other part of the lake, so you might find those fish in 50 to 60 feet of water. The Coosa chain of lakes - Weiss, Neely Henry, Logan Martin, Lay, Mitchell and Jordan — provides a different fishing opportunity and one of his favorites — deep cranking. On the football head jig, I worked with Vicious to come up with the Russ Lane Big Daddy Craw and that’s what I use as a trailer on my jig. Russ Lane of Prattville spends the majority of his time fishing deep water during the middle of the summer in Alabama. read more