Fishin' for gold

iSoftBet sets Fishin’ For Gold on the ice rather than the usual riverbank, swapping the standard fishing-slot lake for a frozen setting populated by animals from opposite ends of the world. The 5-reel, 3-row grid runs on 25 fixed paylines, rendered in bright, cartoon-style art with an upbeat musical backdrop running behind every spin.

Eight symbols make up the paytable. J-through-Ace royals form the low end and carry no special treatment, while the higher-value icons — an old boot, a bucket of fish, a penguin and a polar bear — do the heavy lifting; the polar bear pays the most of the four, worth 40x the stake for five in a row. No wilds appear during the base game at all, so every line win here comes from a straightforward symbol match.

A Bonus Chance Meter is positioned above the reels and fills gradually: every pair of bonus symbols that lands turns one of its 100 segments green. Players can spend 1x their current bet at any time to spin a needle around that meter — stopping on green launches the bonus game, while landing on red resets the meter without paying out. Landing three bonus symbols in a single spin skips the meter altogether and triggers the bonus outright.

Fishin’ For Gold's bonus opens with a choice of four anglers — a polar bear, a penguin, a walrus and a lion — each fishing through their own hole in the ice. Every fish an angler pulls up is worth one free spin, and each one also drops a wild onto the reels; some of those wilds carry a multiplier of x2, x3 or x5, and where more than one lands in the same combination their values add together. A separate Gone Fishing symbol appears only once free spins are underway, and collecting three of them adds two further free spins to the round.

Fishin’ For Gold pays out at a 96.05% RTP with high volatility, an estimated maximum win of 5,000x the stake, and stakes running from 0.25 to 25 per spin.