# Catching Dinosaurs : Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-28, Catching Dinosaurs has 632,000 subscribers, 375,628,687 total views, and 1,059 videos. It ranks #119,963 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Catching Dinosaurs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Catching Dinosaurs is “Casting 200 Yards Strait Into Your Mammas House”, a Short published Apr 29, 2026.
- These are Catching Dinosaurs ’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 10, 2025 and Apr 29, 2026 (3 long-form videos and 45 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 4,393. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “CHOMP!!” (17,824 views, Mar 11, 2026). Least viewed: “Texas South Padre Tarpon ” (237 views, Oct 29, 2025).
- Median length: 3:24 for 3 long-form videos; 1:04 for 45 Shorts.
- In this sample, Catching Dinosaurs ’s consecutive uploads were a median of 3 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 38 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Aug 2, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Casting 200 Yards Strait Into Your Mammas House](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/n8oX31X09mQ/) | 2026-04-29 | Short | 2,254 | 1:41 | - |
| [The Gar Saver Rig Works Perfectly](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/9583bicD8Sk/) | 2026-04-28 | Short | 4,879 | 2:57 | 1.08x |
| [Great Trip with Clients Fishing Alligator Gar #fishing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/HkHwnF_PRW8/) | 2026-03-21 | Short | 3,033 | 1:04 | - |
| [Big Gar On Fly Rod](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/x-7ryW-WeD8/) | 2026-03-20 | Short | 12,848 | 0:46 | 2.83x |
| [Some nice chunky alligator gar](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/U_0nvqg2Jm0/) | 2026-03-15 | Short | 5,783 | 0:19 | 1.2x |
| [That’s a chunky one! TARPON](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/iAWy_X3UY3w/) | 2026-03-13 | Short | 9,163 | 0:13 | 2.17x |
| [CHOMP!!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/Iq6PCAwoUYk/) | 2026-03-11 | Short | 17,824 | 0:09 | 2.79x |
| [Carp Fishing the Best Fishery for Kids](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/Qnt1-tEpI5M/) | 2026-02-21 | Short | 3,123 | 0:29 | - |
| [How To Make The Gar Saver Rig](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/VkML0oF8mz4/) | 2026-02-18 | Short | 4,937 | 0:45 | - |
| [Catch And Release Conservation Based Gar Fishing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/95P5mTeaHr0/) | 2026-02-18 | Short | 4,076 | 2:41 | - |
| [Winter Gar on Lures](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/R85_94ld0sY/) | 2026-02-14 | Short | 2,212 | 0:49 | - |
| [Guiding for Blue Catfish During Winter #fishing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/XyePlmNy2eA/) | 2026-02-13 | Short | 4,543 | 1:12 | 1.17x |
| [That’s a Big Old Drum!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/78Y_94zJwuE/) | 2026-02-12 | Short | 4,689 | 0:51 | 1.19x |
| [Guided Spillway Fishing Trips Available](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/011LNv9JDpc/) | 2026-02-08 | Short | 4,626 | 1:11 | 1.25x |
| [Still Catching Big Gar During Winter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/y2-1X8M8DKY/) | 2026-02-05 | Short | 3,272 | 1:12 | 1.19x |
| [Epic Winter Spillway Bite](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/Ujty_jjFMdg/) | 2026-02-04 | Short | 6,864 | 0:23 | 1.84x |
| [If I have to deal with these comments so do you..](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/HEC4_Dvoxyo/) | 2026-01-05 | Short | 1,364 | 3:01 | - |
| [My Favorite Video from 2025](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/5B_LHvAu5QU/) | 2025-12-28 | Short | 12,002 | 0:14 | 2.2x |
| [United States Most Underrated Fishery #fishing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/y4e4vhihNKg/) | 2025-12-17 | Short | 2,114 | 0:49 | - |
| [700 Pounds Of Fish Landed in 5 Hours #fishing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/5JCTzb9M4gY/) | 2025-12-11 | Short | 7,222 | 0:56 | 1.61x |
| [Pure Bliss](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/aAVAziod_bI/) | 2025-12-10 | Short | 943 | 0:20 | - |
| [Tarpon ripping drag into the night](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/Fd_pH-8cpKc/) | 2025-12-09 | Short | 2,463 | 0:44 | - |
| [Last Gar Trip on the Year!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/ygieQJuwGkM/) | 2025-12-08 | Short | 5,678 | 0:46 | 1.39x |
| [Searching for the Elusive Texas Tarpon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/h6LS73xfCPs/) | 2025-12-04 | Short | 5,267 | 1:16 | 1.31x |
| [BullSharks All Night](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/8ReV7IuParU/) | 2025-12-01 | Short | 2,881 | 0:47 | - |
| [FULL MOON MONSTER TARPON SHOWDOWN](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/ghLYnmio_XA/) | 2025-11-08 | Long-form | 291 | 3:24 | - |
| [Fattest Tarpon Landed Yet!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/rwfrD6f4crk/) | 2025-10-30 | Short | 7,261 | 2:30 | 1.58x |
| [Texas South Padre Tarpon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/6ADprsD3xiM/) | 2025-10-29 | Long-form | 237 | 3:24 | - |
| [Release The Beast](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/ikZ6q9iLmmM/) | 2025-10-24 | Short | 5,911 | 0:39 | 1.29x |
| [Dreams Really Do Come True](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/8DrQPcFd0c4/) | 2025-10-23 | Short | 3,450 | 0:04 | - |
| [Let’s Go Tarpon Fishing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/2xuJYqtRvX8/) | 2025-10-20 | Short | 10,301 | 0:14 | - |
| [Big Fish On!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/7NnNflM7kF0/) | 2025-10-17 | Short | 2,613 | 3:01 | - |
| [All Nighter Fishing for Tarpon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/7DJlGZFcPOo/) | 2025-10-14 | Short | 1,701 | 2:17 | - |
| [Bass Swim Bait Catches Monster](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/OUkIrFUM9s8/) | 2025-10-11 | Short | 5,004 | 1:31 | - |
| [Day 4 saving a hundred gar a day](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/spmyht6d9XE/) | 2025-10-02 | Short | 4,560 | 1:20 | - |
| [Day 2 Saving A Hundred Gar](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/uvVNTmGfyUc/) | 2025-09-26 | Short | 4,243 | 2:42 | - |
| [Modified Gar Saver Rig](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/eDxwOyVs7UM/) | 2025-09-19 | Short | 6,333 | 1:47 | - |
| [Biggest fish of the year](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/6h5F5suMypE/) | 2025-09-14 | Short | 13,850 | 2:33 | - |
| [130 Pound Fish vs Bass Rod](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/XwyxxaNCtQA/) | 2025-09-11 | Short | 4,121 | 1:37 | - |
| [It took 60 years for this fish to grow this size](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/DidUYfIeXiI/) | 2025-09-09 | Short | 9,245 | 0:31 | - |
| [Fishing The Most Dangerous Pass in Texas SLP](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/u3yUkLz6kIQ/) | 2025-09-06 | Short | 2,544 | 1:44 | - |
| [Days with a slow bite are still epic guided trips](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/8TU_Oa6DgII/) | 2025-09-05 | Short | 2,117 | 1:09 | - |
| [Alligator gar are amazing native sportfish](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/7Uk5nq90AXM/) | 2025-08-26 | Short | 1,904 | 1:07 | - |
| [True Giant Landed 🦖](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/_DyFk1SXst8/) | 2025-08-21 | Short | 2,979 | 1:51 | - |
| [Three Rare Fish That Can Be Caught In Texas Spillways](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/6gowl4vFiwY/) | 2025-08-18 | Short | 6,018 | 0:29 | - |
| [Open dates available let’s go catch a giant!🦖](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/eRdgT7synYc/) | 2025-08-15 | Long-form | 411 | 3:43 | - |
| [The Future Of Alligator Gar Fishing 🦖](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/jl7_rnJy2Ok/) | 2025-08-12 | Short | 1,407 | 2:41 | - |
| [Catch and Release Conservation-based Alligator Gar Angling](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@catchingdinosaurs/videos/z0eGwzWcGUM/) | 2025-08-10 | Short | 4,684 | 1:00 | - |

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