Discarded fishing line starts BlacktipH's journey to a private fleet
Josh Jorgensen's budget-spanning adventure approaches four million views, with Caeleb Dressel joining one of its offshore stops.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
$1 vs $100,000,000 Fishing Challenge
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- 0:26Josh buys hooks and shrimp, then salvages discarded fishing line for the dollar-budget attempt.
- 3:18The challenge moves onto a jet ski fitted with fishing-rod racks.
- 7:30Caeleb Dressel joins the crew to catch tuna for bait before targeting a Goliath grouper.
- 13:54Anthony Hsieh's Bad Company fleet supplies the Mexico stage of the challenge.
- 17:51The team travels to Cape Verde to search for blue marlin.
What can Josh Jorgensen catch with a dollar? Two hooks, four dead shrimp and some discarded monofilament from a marina trash can are enough to get BlacktipH's fishing challenge underway. Before the private jet and the enormous boats, there is a dock and a catfish.
BlacktipH posted nothing new this week, but "$1 vs $100,000,000 Fishing Challenge" remains its busiest video right now, approaching four million views. The appeal is in the changing scale: Jorgensen goes from salvaged line to a store-bought rod, then a jet ski, bay boats and eventually Anthony Hsieh's Bad Company fleet in Mexico and Cape Verde.
Olympic swimmer Caeleb Dressel joins the offshore stretch, helping catch tuna for bait before the crew brings in a giant Goliath grouper. Dressel also appears in "Who's Stronger? 9x Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer vs. Strongest Game Fish," another of the channel's currently active uploads. Between those two on daily views sits "Dropping Massive Baits 6000ft Deep for Giant Squid," a Tahiti expedition with captain Tom Francis.
The back catalog added roughly 1.4 million views over seven days, while the subscriber count stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is currently well below BlacktipH's usual pace. In its outdoors neighborhood, Epic Gardening is enjoying an above-usual daily audience; BlacktipH's quieter stretch is being sustained by trips that range from a marina trash can to the deep Pacific.
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In which sport did BlacktipH guest Caeleb Dressel win his Olympic gold medals?
Dressel is an Olympic champion swimmer who joins Josh for offshore fishing.




