Mike Dupree

Captain Mike "Slick" Dupree is a wahoo specialist and the self-filmed force behind the X-Rayted Fishing Team. He runs Bale Money Sportfishing out of Morehead City, North Carolina, fishing the Gulf Stream edges off Cape Lookout, where he has refined slow trolling into a craft: reading satellite data, deploying planers, and rigging ballyhoo that swims naturally at slow speed. In his In The Spread videos, Dupree walks anglers through slow-trolling wahoo on the water, from ballyhoo rigging and spread management to the trolling dynamics that trigger strikes.

• Bait Rigging Videos
• Ballyhoo Bait Rigging
• Saltwater
• Wahoo Fishing Videos

Instructor's videos

Mike Dupree, known up and down the North Carolina coast as Slick, is a wahoo specialist and one of the more complete outdoorsmen we work with. He is a Coast Guard licensed captain, a tournament angler, and a self-taught, self-filmed, self-produced filmmaker who runs the Bale Money Fishing Team. From the wood ducks and turkeys of the Piedmont to inshore tournaments and offshore pelagic hunts, there is not much of North Carolina's wild that Slick has not chased. But his favorite fish, and the one he has built his reputation around, is the wahoo.

Dupree runs Bale Money Sportfishing out of Morehead City, North Carolina, fishing his 50-foot Hatteras, the Bale Money, along the Gulf Stream edges off Cape Lookout. That stretch of water, where the current pushes temperature breaks and bait within a short run of the beach, is some of the best wahoo ground on the East Coast, and Slick has learned to work it as well as anyone.

What sets his instruction apart is the shift most anglers never make. When high-speed trolling stops drawing strikes and the fish turn selective, Dupree slows down. His slow-trolling approach is a craft in itself: reading satellite data to isolate temperature breaks and current convergences, deploying planers to control depth, and rigging ballyhoo so the bait swims naturally at reduced speed instead of washing out. He understands the wahoo food chain and positions baits where the fish are actually feeding rather than dragging a spread and hoping.

Slick is also a natural on camera, which makes him a strong teacher. He explains the why behind each decision clearly, and his commitment to authenticity comes through in everything he films. His motto sums up the attitude: do it today, because tomorrow might not show up.

In his In The Spread videos, Dupree takes you on the water for slow-trolling wahoo from start to finish: ballyhoo rigging, planer deployment, spread management, satellite data, and the trolling dynamics that keep baits in the strike zone. If you want to add slow trolling to your wahoo game, he is the one to learn it from.

Personal website:
https://www.xraytedfishing.com/