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His new tuna film brings together spearfishing contacts from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and has drawn about 268,000 views.
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I Speared a Potential WORLD RECORD Bluefin Tuna
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- 1:30The group introduces its spearfishing equipment, including three-float rigs for a single gun.
- 5:00The crew throws sardine chum into the offshore water to draw tuna upward.
- 7:28Tuna appear on sonar, and the divers begin gearing up.
- 10:00The host encounters a feeding school and takes his shot.
- 12:00He and Cem manage the buoys and lines as the tuna repeatedly dives.
Even three floats on a single speargun cannot make this look easy. Deep into Big Water Guy's new bluefin expedition, he and guide Cem are managing lines while the fish repeatedly pulls downward. "I've never felt so helpless in the ocean," he says. "There was just nothing I could do to stop this fish."
"I Speared a Potential WORLD RECORD Bluefin Tuna" is the most-watched of his six uploads this week. The title presents the catch as a potential record, not a confirmed one. The film starts with a trip abroad with his wife to meet spearfishing contacts from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, including Ulan, whom he met through Instagram. Offshore, sardine chum draws tuna toward the divers, and the hunt becomes a prolonged exercise in handling buoys, cable and an exceptionally powerful fish.
The comments offer another story alongside the catch: viewers are asking for more long videos, including stretches of diving and ocean life set to music. Several also discuss how the tuna was handled afterward, particularly cooling and preserving the meat.
Around that centerpiece, the week's uploads range from "This is how you filet a halibut cheek" to a first taste of sea urchin, plus a paid CarGurus partnership. The tuna film also carries the strongest daily momentum, followed by "China is living in 3000" and "You can't larp big fish".
The channel added roughly 4,000 subscribers over the week, while daily views are now nearly twice their usual level. Nearby outdoors channel Kayli King also had a busy week; Lost Lakes had a quieter one. For Big Water Guy, the clearest audience request is specific: leave more room for the underwater journey, not just the catch.
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What viewers say
Just want to say before I even watch, the longer videos are where it’s at even if it’s just diving and showing oceanic life with music. Loving the long videos lately
@matteogugliotta8968See it on YouTubeI love seeing people from other countries completely psyched for people from other countries achieving something like that! We are all the same man! I dig it, love from USA
@GrumpyBearForgeSee it on YouTubeI'm hours late to the party, but based on what I can see, the video is already doing really good numbers. I love the long videos, even though I usually have to wait until I get home from work or the gym to give the video my undivided attention. Well worth the wait, though! Awesome work, BWG. Congratulations on the extraordinarily successful trip, dude.
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YouTube recommended really hit with this one
@guapfiend4035See it on YouTubeNot now babe, new Big Water Guy just dropped.
@jacobhanna9775See it on YouTubeCongratulations Vlad
I love seeing you bring your wife on these trips. That's awesome for you and her@buckzilla1466See it on YouTubeI've dreamt of adventures like this, thanks for bringing us with you! It's your time Vlad, The Fish Slayer is here! 🤙
Blessed!@jamesrogerson7482See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Big Water Guy
- Subscribers
- 408,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,172,453
- Videos published this week
- 6
- Video published
- November 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 268,245
- Views on its first day
- 149,647
The numbers
Here's how Big Water Guy's uploads and audience moved over the week.
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Which fish does the crew use as chum in the bluefin expedition?
The crew throws sardine chum into the water to draw tuna up from deeper water.