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Field Days gives his daughter the camera on a dinner hunt

An offshore fishing challenge becomes a father-daughter mangrove outing, drawing more than 113,000 views in its first 17 hours.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 132,159 views a day, 31 times a normal first day on this channel (4,288).

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  1. 0:24Field Days wakes in a boat hammock at sunrise and heads towards an offshore island.
  2. 3:31He rigs a prototype stickbait to target Spanish mackerel; the offshore catch comes at 05:36.
  3. 6:44A strong southerly forecast ends the outer-reef plan and sends him back through rough waves.
  4. 10:07Misha joins him on the sandbar and takes a small camera for their mangrove outing.
  5. 12:17They encounter sea snakes and a shovel-nosed ray while he attempts bow shots at mullet.

Field Days has been sent out to bring home dinner, but his young daughter Misha gets a job of her own: filming Dad with a small handheld camera. Her footage even gets its own on-screen label, "MISHA CAM".

The title, "If I Don't Catch Food, My Family Doesn't Eat - Cooking on Fire", sets up a family fishing challenge, rather than a story of going hungry. The outing begins with him waking in a hammock aboard his boat at sunrise, then heading towards an offshore island to fish the incoming tide.

A Spanish mackerel takes his surface lure and ends up on ice for the evening cookout. Then the weather changes the itinerary. With a strong southerly forecast, he abandons plans for the outer reef and returns through rough water.

The mangroves offer a more sheltered setting for the next part: walking through the shallows with Misha, a bow and arrow, and that little camera. They spot sea snakes hunting along the bottom and a shovel-nosed ray nearby as he attempts shots at mullet.

Solo survival is a familiar part of Field Days: his most-watched regular upload follows an island stay with only a pocket knife. Here, the different detail is having someone along to ask for a photograph. "When you see Daddy shoot a fish, you'll photo me?" he asks Misha. "That is so good, thank you, baby."

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  • Nothing like a father daughter catch and cook
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  • Hearing Matt's "Whats going on my dawgies" tends to make my day.
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  • Yea dawgies!!! So good to have the family out with you. ✌️💜🌵🌞
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  • The time spent with your little girl is immense. No money can buy that 😍
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The facts
Channel
Field Days
Subscribers
2,010,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
1,027,088
Channel views, pace per day
224,300 (on a normal day: 141,444)
Video published
November 8, 2026
Video views so far
113,555 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
132,159

The numbers

The family fishing outing is drawing views much faster than Field Days' usual start. The count below is still short of a full first day.

the video's first day
usual first day here
4,288
this video
132,159
subscribers
2,010,000
▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days
total views
330,400,454
views per day
224,300
typical day: 141,444
the video
views
113,555
likes
3,346
comments
303
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
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2,020,000
Field Days
2,010,000
MeatEater
1,880,000
Jon B.
1,860,000
As of November 9, 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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