Big Bass Bonanza

Big Bass Bonanza has been one of the most popular slots since its launch in 2020. With incredible bonuses and a unique, distinctive visual style, this instant classic from Reel Kingdom for Pragmatic Play has reinvented the fishing slots genre.

Whilst it’s true that the fish symbols containing money add an element of interest to the base game that other slots lacking such incentives don’t have, what we’re all hoping to trigger when playing the Big Bass Bonanza slot is the unique and exclusive free spins bonus.

But how often will you manage to land 3, 4 or 5 scatter symbols to trigger 10, 15 or 20 free spins (respectively)? The answer to that question can help you decide whether Big Bass Bonanza is the right slot for you and how much time and money you’re willing to spend to trigger the feature.

The game is programmed to trigger the bonus feature once every 113 spins, on average. This means it can sometimes take longer, and sometimes less time – it all depends on luck! We decided to test this on the Spanish version of the game, and, although luck wasn’t quite on our side, we managed to trigger the free spins after just over 12 minutes, on spin number 164.

Of course, this experiment isn’t guaranteed to happen in your own game: you might take 200 spins to trigger the feature, or you might get lucky and hit it within the first 50! Chance, as always, is what decides.

You’ve no doubt seen the free spins feature in action before, but here’s a quick reminder of how it works: as you’ll see, landing fishermen takes you through up to four game levels, and at each level you’re awarded 10 additional free spins with multipliers of 2x, 3x or 10x. In our experiment, during the first ten free spins, we managed to collect 4 fishermen, which earned us 10 additional free spins with a 2x multiplier. In total, that made 20 free spins!

The fisherman symbol only appears during the free spins rounds, and he’s not just the Wild symbol – he’s also the key to collecting the money symbols: the fish with a euro amount underneath them, whose value can range from x10 to x2000. Without a fisherman to collect them, the fish are worth nothing!

But what most players don’t realise is that each additional fisherman collects his own money symbols. In other words, if you have 3 fish with a total value of €10, one fisherman collects the €10; two fishermen mean €20, and so on. In theory, there’s no limit to the number of fishermen that can appear, although in practice it’s rare to get more than one.

If you land a fisherman but there are no fish on the reels, there’s a chance the fisherman will throw a stick of dynamite and turn some regular symbols into fish – another of those details that helped make this game such a hit.