Big Bass Trophy Fishing

Big Bass Trophy Catch: Slot Overview

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be Bill Murray's character in the film Groundhog Day, then just follow the Big Bass series closely, and it will give you an idea. These are slots which have been rolling on for years as release after release continues to darken (or lighten, depending on preference) the doorstep of online casino lobbies. The title under the microscope here is Big Bass Trophy Catch, and the justification for its existence is that it can award three free spins levels in the base game and three modifiers during the bonus round. Other than that, it's all about collecting fish money symbols as well as wild symbols in order to build a collection multiplier. BAU in other words.

Big Bass Trophy Catch inhabits an underwater patch, the sort of location that has appeared in many fish slots before. The only real eye opener is the three fishermen characters, linked to free spins values next to the grid on the left-hand side of the screen. The rest, well, the rest is all atypical Big Bass ear and eye candy, upbeat, cheerful, day on the water stuff. The series practically wrote the book on how a fish slot should look by now, and it is sticking to it, every letter.

A transparent 5x3 grid is where the action takes place, and 10 paylines evaluate winning combinations. Stake range varies from a minimum of $/€0.10 to a ceiling level of $/€240, and a highly volatile math model drives the boat, producing a default RTP of 96.5%.

The Big Bass symbols are back, which means bulgy 10-A royals, fish money symbols, boxes, rods, dragonflies, and floats. Land 5 of the same kind to win 5x-10x when made of royals, or 20x-200x for the picture symbols. Wilds only appear in the bonus round, where one thing they can do is substitute all symbols except scatters and money symbols.

Big Bass Trophy Catch: Slot Features

Collecting fish money symbols is the point of Big Bass Trophy Catch, and these symbols land with values of 2x to 5,000x, which can only be collected in the bonus round. In the base game, whenever 2 scatters hit, they are collected by one of the 3 fishermen by the reels. At random, when this happens, the free spins feature can trigger with 10, 15, or 20 free spins, depending on the collecting fisherman. Alternatively, landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters awards 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively. Furthermore, when 2 scatters hit in the base game, there is a chance that a hook animation randomly occurs to pull a third scatter into view.

During free spins, each landed wild symbol collects the values of money symbols on the reels. Wild symbols are also collected by a meter. Every 4th collected wild retriggers +10 more free spins and a multiplier of x2 for the first retrigger, x3 for the second retrigger, and x10 for the third retrigger.

When a scatter symbol lands on a free spin, it is collected by the red, blue, or green fishermen next to the reels. When this happens, at random, the modifier associated with the collecting fisherman can activate till the end of the round and award 1-5 extra free spins. Possible modifiers are:

• x2 All Wins: Multiplies all winning combinations and the money collections done by fisherman wilds by x2.
• More Fish: More money symbols are present on the reel strips.
• More Men: More Fisherman Wilds are present on the reel strips.

Randomly, when there is at least one wild on the reels, money symbols may appear on the grid at the end of a free spin. Or, when there are wild symbols but no money symbols, a bazooka may randomly add money symbols to the screen. Lastly, a hook animation may randomly bring wild and money symbols onto the screen.

Ante Bet & Feature Buys

Switching the ante bet on increases the chance of winning free spins by adding an extra 50% onto the stake. In addition, two buy options are available. For 100x, the free spins will be triggered, or for 300x, the free spins will trigger with all three modifiers active from the start.

Big Bass Trophy Catch: Slot Verdict

At first, Big Bass Trophy Catch's title was read as Big Bass Temporary Catch, which was amusing since nothing about the series feels temporary by this stage, as the endless releases roll off the Pragmatic Play/Reel Kingdom production line lest players forget what Big Bass means and divert their attention to another fish slot. At a guess, it seems like Reel Kingdom's mission was to link its series to the three pot phenomenon that is hot right now. If so, then this it has achieved, as players spin for three levels of free spin rewards in the base game and three different modifiers in the bonus round. In some ways, this is quite an astute move; in other ways, it is hard to stifle a yawn.

The three feature thing in the base game is a tad tenuous since all of the rewards are free spins, that's it. The three pots make more sense during the bonus round, where three actual, different modifiers are up for grabs. None are especially exciting since they basically just enhance what Big Bass slots already do. Added fisherman and fish to the reel strips, fine, mixing in another multiplier, could be worse, plus the 5,000x win cap feels like a good fit. However, there is nothing extraordinary to haul in here, and that's sort of where Big Bass as a whole is at the moment. Ticking away, pushing out passable enough fish slot action, expanding a series which feels past its best by date, and is slipping inexorably deeper into mediocre territory.