Big Bass Bonanza Slot (Pragmatic Play)

Due to its popularity, there are plenty of Big Bass Bonanza free spins offers available at licensed UK casinos and slot sites. Below, we’ve listed 9 Big Bass Bonanza promotions you can claim:

The Big Bass Bonanza slot has 5 reels, 3 rows and 10 fixed paylines. Winning combinations are simply created when matching symbols appear from left to right, on adjacent reels, beginning from the leftmost reel. With most symbols, you need 3 or more whilst you need 2 or more with the highest value symbol.

Bet levels in Big Bass Bonanza vary widely from 10p to £250 per spin. At newer online casino sites, the max bet may be restricted to £20 or even £10 per spin. Use the plus and/or minus buttons under the reels to change your bet accordingly. Outside the UK, Autoplay is available with up to 1,000 auto spins with loss and win limits. You also will have Quick and Turbo Spin modes for faster action (again, not available in the UK).

The Big Bass Bonanza RTP rate is 96.71%. Much higher than the 96% slots average, Pragmatic Play also offers 95.67% and 94.5% RTP alternative versions. To check which RTP you’re playing with, open the game’s Paytable at your chosen gambling site.

Medium to high volatility, it’s classed as 4/5 on the variance scale. With the hit frequency rate at 13% (a win every 7.69 spins on average), triggering the Free Spins feature will occur every 113 spins on average.

Finally, the Big Bass Bonanza slot can reel in maximum wins of 2,100 times your total bet. The max win probability or odds are 1 in 3,880,481 spins (or 1 in 3.88 million). Winning 1,000 times your total bet or higher will occur every 712,251 spins on average.

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With a fishing theme, the Big Bass Bonanza slot sees you fish up the biggest wins. Released on the 14^th of December 2020, it’s very colourful, pleasant and relaxing visually. Set under the ocean water, the reels appear just below the dark blue water’s surface.

You’ll instantly notice the jolly soundtrack with a ukelele used. On the reels, you’ll come across colourful A, K, Q, J and 10 royals which all offer the same payouts (up to 10 times bet). Then you have money fish symbols in various sizes. Landing 3 or more of any size will award a payout. These are particularly important in the Free Spins feature as you’ll discover below.

Higher-value symbols include tackle boxes, dragonflies, fishing rods and floats. The float symbol pays the most awarding 200 times your total bet for 5 in combination. A screen full of floats will result in a 2,000 times bet payout.

Big Bass Bonanza comes with 2 special symbols. You have the Fisherman Wild which appears on all 5 reels during the free spins and substitutes for all paying symbols. Lastly, there is a Scatter symbol which is key to triggering the free spins. Below, you’ll find a list of all symbol payouts and functions:

• A/K/Q/J/10: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 2.5 or 10 x bet
• Money Fish: 3, 4 or 5 = 1, 5 or 20 x bet
• Tackle Box/Dragonfly: 3, 4 or 5 = 2, 10 or 50 x bet
• Fishing Rod: 3, 4 or 5 = 3, 15 or 100 x bet
• Float: 2, 3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 5, 20 or 200 x bet
• Fisherman Wild: Appears in free spins + substitutes for paying symbols
• Scatter: 3+ triggers Free Spins feature

Big Bass Bonanza Mobile

Big Bass Bonanza uses HTML5 technology so is available to play on desktop, mobile and tablet devices. It’s compatible with iOS and Android smartphone devices too. The simple 5x3 layout well works on handheld screens.

The Big Bass Bonanza slot has 2 bonus features with them both coming in the Free Spins feature. Starting with up to 20 free spins, Fisherman Wilds play an important part as they collect Money Fish symbol values and award additional free spins with a multiplier up to 10x. Randomly, Fish Money symbols can appear when 1 Fisherman Wild symbol lands.

Free Spins 

If you land 3 or more Scatters anywhere during a base game spin, you’ll trigger the Free Spins feature. 3, 4 or 5 scatters will result in 10, 15 or 20 free spins respectively.

The most important symbol is the Fisherman Wild who substitutes for all paying symbols when part of a winning combination. You’ll notice that Money Fish symbols contain bet multiplier values. When they land alongside a Fisherman Wild symbol, the values are collected and won. If you had £5, £10 and £20 Money Fish symbols as well as a Fisherman Wild, you’d pocket £35 (£5 + £10 + £20 = £35).

Multiple Fisherman Wilds on the reels will see the Fish Money values collected by each Fisherman. Importantly, all Fisherman Wilds are collected in a meter above the reels. When you collect 4, you’ll retrigger the feature for additional free spins and an increased multiplier.

Each retrigger sees you awarded 10 more free spins with the multiplier rising to 2x, 3x and finally 10x. With a total of 50 free spins possible, the table below highlights what you’ll get and how to achieve it:

The Big Bass Bonanza slot was the game that started the Big Bass revolution. Simply designed, the gameplay is rather simple, especially in the base game. Graphically, it’s upbeat, fun and simple to follow.

The focus is entirely on the Free Spins feature where the Fisherman Wild and Fish Money symbols come into their own. If a Fisherman Wild lands alongside Fish Money symbols, the Fish Money symbol values are collected and awarded. The Fisherman Wild is also collected in a meter which will lead to retriggers for every 4 you collect.

This will lead to additional free spins (up to 30) and an increased multiplier of up to 10x. This can lead to 2,100 times bet max wins on each free spin. The 96.71% RTP rate is also high compared to the majority of slot games. Due to Big Bass Bonanza's popularity, it's often the subject of various free spins no wagering offers in the UK. 

If you fancy reeling in bigger payouts, Ugliest Catch by Nolimit City comes with 50,000 x bet max wins and a different take on the traditional fishing theme. You also have Razor Returns from Push Gaming which boasts 100,000 x bet max wins and a 96.55% RTP rate.

With Big Bass Bonanza being so enjoyable yet simple, Pragmatic Play has gone on to create a whole Big Bass slot series. There are Megaways versions, higher-paying games with up to 20,000 times bet max wins and ones with Halloween, horse racing and Christmas themes.

The Big Bass Bonanza slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who has written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades. It was then verified/checked by Jenny Mason, our prime Slot reviewer who has 17+ years working in online gambling, top UK brands. 

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