Big Water Guy's 'best travel hack' leaves viewers asking about the other side of the world

A sponsored short with no fish in it became the busiest video on the catch-and-cook channel, while the comments wander off to geography and tuna.

Channel: Big Water GuyStory of October 5, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video is running at 270,814 views a day, 15 times its usual pace (17,894).

This is my best travel hack! #AD

Big Water Guy's channel is about catching, cooking and diving out of Washington, so the video doing most of the work right now is an unusual one. It is a sponsored short, marked as an ad in its own title, "This is my best travel hack! #AD", and it has no fish in it.

It also started slowly. Posted on September 30, it gathered only a few thousand views on its first day. Five days later it has passed 430,000, and it has lifted the whole channel's day to close to double its usual. Nothing he has posted since comes near it. "This blew my socks off", his strongest upload of the week, has fewer than half as many views.

The comment section is small, and much of it plays with one idea: being on the other side of the world. Several viewers ask the obvious question, the other side from where? A few others reply, with a straight face, that everyone is on the other side of the world from something. Another group seems to have looked straight past the travel tip. They want to know when the next upload is coming, and one asks specifically about the big tuna video.

The tuna has been on the menu all along. "Is my tuna ruined??" went up on October 3, and the next day brought "Shooting my dream fish!", which is closer to the catch, cook and dive the channel promises.

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The numbers

This is a slow starter that turned into the channel's biggest mover, and it now pulls the whole channel well above its usual day.

views per day, this video

typical day

17,894

now

270,814

subscribers

389,000

▲ 4,000 in the last 7 days

total views

205,473,009

views per day

778,260

typical day: 432,116

the video

views

437,463

likes

1,309

comments

20

days online

5

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Kayli King

406,000

Big Water Guy

389,000

Lost Lakes

385,000

Mullet Man

382,000

402_Outdoors

369,000

High Adventure Videos

367,000

As of October 5, 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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