Big Catch Bass Fishing

Fishing has long been a recurring theme for slot studios, and Blueprint Gaming's take is Big Catch Bass Fishing, a 5x3 grid with 10 paylines dressed in mountain, forest, and open-water scenery. The math model runs medium/high volatility with a top-line RTP of 95%, matched by a lower 93% configuration, betting from 0.10 to 100 a spin, and a maximum win of 4,000 times the stake.

A bonus buy sits alongside the natural route into the free spins feature, costing 100 times the bet to force at least 3 scatter symbols onto the reels and open the round directly. Reached the normal way, 3, 4, or 5 scatters award 10, 15, or 20 free spins.

Before those spins start, a Pick A Fish screen offers a choice between several hidden upgrades: additional Fisherman symbols on the reels, a Cash Tag placed on one of the non-royal symbols, multiple collections of the same cash value, extra free spins added directly, or a respin of every tile besides the Cash and Fisherman symbols that keeps going until no further improvement lands.

Card-rank symbols from 10 to A form the low pays, worth 5 to 10 times the bet for five in a row, while a mixed group of fish symbols returns 20x and the tackle box, dragonfly, rod, and boat icons — the four premiums — pay 50 to 200 times the bet for a five-symbol line. Notably, the wild only shows up once free spins are underway, appearing across all five reels and paying at boat-symbol value when it lands a combination of its own; it never appears in the base game.

During the round, landing a Fisherman symbol alongside fish money icons or any symbol carrying a Cash Tag pays out the attached value, and each Fisherman collected builds toward a meter. Two, six, or ten collected add another Pick A Fish upgrade; four, eight, or twelve add 10 more free spins apiece along with a x2, x3, or x10 multiplier applied to the Fisherman's cash awards, and the round keeps extending itself as retriggers land.

With a hit frequency of roughly 1 in 6, Big Catch Bass Fishing released on 28 June 2023 and sits toward the higher-volatility end of Blueprint Gaming's fishing-themed lineup.