Big Catch Bass Fishing

Five reels, three rows and ten fixed paylines make up the frame Blueprint Gaming built for Big Catch Bass Fishing, where a fisherman icon does the collecting rather than a wild handling the usual line-forming duties. Return sits across two published configurations, 95% and 93%, with medium/high volatility and a hit rate of about one spin in six paying out; stakes run from 0.10 to 100, and the ceiling on any single win is 4,000x the stake.

Paytable-wise, ranks 10 through Ace form the bottom tier, paying 5x to 10x for a full line of five, a generic fish symbol sits above them at 20x, and the top four symbols, a boat, a fishing rod, a dragonfly and a tackle box, pay between 50x and 200x for five in a row. The boat stands apart from the rest of the paytable in one respect: it pays from just two symbols rather than needing three. A wild joins the reels once free spins begin, standing in for any regular symbol and matching the boat's payout when it lands a win by itself.

The bonus round can be bought directly for 100x the stake, which guarantees a trigger and skips straight to free spins; landing it naturally instead needs three scatters for 10 spins, four for 15, or five for the full 20. Either way, before the spins run, the game shows a set of fish to choose from. Picking a fish beforehand decides what shape the round takes: some choices add value by cash-tagging a symbol or letting collected cash pay out twice, others add volume by seeding extra Fisherman icons onto the reels or tacking on more spins outright, and one instead reruns everything on screen bar the cash and Fisherman symbols until the outcome stops climbing.

Through the spins themselves, every Fisherman that lands adds to a side meter and also collects whatever cash values are showing on cash-tagged or fish symbols in the same spin. Hitting 2, 6 or 10 on that meter grants another Pick A Fish choice, and hitting 4, 8 or 12 does two things at once: it adds ten spins and layers on a multiplier, x2, then x3, then x10, over everything the Fisherman brings in afterwards, with any leftover spins rolling into the next batch once the current one runs out.