Big Water Guy's 'best travel hack,' an ad in a week of bluefin tuna

The clip barely stirred on its first day, then picked up more than 160,000 views in a single day while the tuna kept coming around it.

Channel: Big Water GuyStory of October 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video is running at 161,111 views a day, 81 times its usual pace (1,981).

This is my best travel hack! #AD

Its first day brought in about 3,500 views, a modest start on a channel built around fishing. Four days on, "This is my best travel hack! #AD" has passed 160,000, and nearly all of them arrived in the last day.

Big Water Guy describes his channel in three words, catch, cook, dive, and says he is based out of Washington. This clip is the odd one out: as its title says, it is an ad, and it sits in a week that otherwise belongs to the ocean. The hack itself stays inside the video, and it is not clear what set off the sudden jump.

The ad went up the same day as "Fresh caught bluefin tuna belly" and "No I don't want to eat at red lobster." Two days later came "This blew my socks off," now close to 140,000 views of its own. Then "Is my tuna ruined??" and "This is one of the best catch & cook's I've done!" followed on Saturday. With two videos running hot at once, the channel as a whole is ahead of its usual pace.

The comment section stayed small, a handful of notes against all those views. Several are about other videos: viewers asking when the next upload is coming, and one waiting for "that big tuna video." With "Is my tuna ruined??" already up, that wait may be shorter than they think.

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The numbers

A sponsored clip that started slowly and then outran almost everything else on the channel in one day.

views per day, this video

typical day

1,981

now

161,111

subscribers

388,000

▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days

total views

204,694,986

views per day

524,995

typical day: 421,796

the video

views

166,711

likes

691

comments

9

days online

4

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Kayli King

406,000

Big Water Guy

388,000

Lost Lakes

385,000

Mullet Man

382,000

402_Outdoors

369,000

High Adventure Videos

367,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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