Bigger Bass Bonanza Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Bigger Bass Bonanza Review

The original Big Bass Bonanza has been a huge success for Pragmatic Play partner, Reel Kingdom, and hardcore gamblers will probably welcome this beefed up version with open arms. Bigger Bass Bonanza slot could perhaps have been even bolder, but you do get an extra row, a couple more paylines and a 4,000x single fish potential that doubles what’s on offer in the predecessor.

A change we really like is how 5-oak cash fish wins in the base game actually collects all cash prizes involved. The original offered a mid-level win only, and many installments in the fishing slot genre come with cash fish that only block regular wins most of the time. The hip 80s-style audiovisual elements are a bit off the mark in our view, but the vibe is still pretty chilled and relaxing.

Bigger Bass Bonanza Features

Regular premium symbols pay between 50 and 200 times your stake for 5-oak, but the cash fish symbols also pay in the base game here, which is a bit unusual for this franchise. Landing a 5-oak cash fish win awards the summed up total of all the involved cash values, while 3 or 4 on a payline awards 1 or 5 times your stake, respectively.

The leaping fish scatter can land anywhere on the grid, and you need at least 3 in view to trigger the Bonus Round. More precisely, you get 10, 15 or 20 free spins when you land 3, 4 or 5 fish scatters on the same base game spin.

The fisherman wild becomes active in the Bigger Bass Bonanza bonus round, and the “magic happens” whenever he appears together with cash fish symbols. All cash values are then collected by the angler, and the money symbols come with random values up to 4,000x your stake at the most.

After the fisherman wild has hauled in the catch, he himself is collected in a meter above the reels. You retrigger the bonus round for every 4th wild that is collected in this meter, and this awards +10 extra spins and a multiplier boost for the collector symbol. You get x2 for the first retrigger, then x3 for the second and x10 for the third. All collected cash fish are subject to whatever multiplier is active, and the feature cannot be retriggered after the 3rd time.

The 200 Spins Bigger Bass Bonanza Experience

Our more than 6-minute long highlights video gives you a good overview of both the base game and the bonus round, and it starts with a larger cash fish win. We then grind along for a while, before the feature is triggered at 2:30 into the video.

Review Summary

Bigger Bass Bonanza slot delivers on the premise of the title, as it’s certainly bigger, bolder and a lot more volatile. We’re unsure why Reel Kingdom has decided to go with silhouetted palm trees in the background below the ocean surface however, instead of subsea flora and fauna. People come to these kinds of games for a nostalgic and relaxing time that might lead to a big catch, not to be all hip and cool with a tempting nightlife strip in the background.

Anyway, the features are the same, but you can now win the actual cash values of the fish also in the base game. A 4th row has been bolted on the 5 reels, giving you 12 paylines instead of 10, and the potential has been doubled. The elusive 4,000x fish makes this a more thrilling prospect, but you can expect plenty of dead spins, with occasional measly wins, most of the time in the base game. The bonus round is no guarantee for larger payouts either, by the way.

Pros

• 4 rows and 12 paylines version
• 5-oak cash fish awards summed up prizes
• FS w/ cash fish collection wild and multiplier trail
• Win up to 4,000x from a single cash fish

Cons

• Beware of adjustable RTP ranges
• Too volatile for casual punters

If you enjoy Bigger Bass Bonanza you should also try:

Big Bass Bonanza - is a good choice if you’re looking for a less brutal version of this game at hand. This Reel Kingdom original comes with the same main feature, but cash fish pay like regular symbols in the base game. The volatility is still pretty high also in this version, and you can win up to 2,100x your stake.

Fishin' Frenzy Megaways - is a steroid injected version of the original from Blueprint, and you get to play with dynamic reels and up to 15,625 win ways on any given spin.

Fishin Frenzy: The Big Catch - is a solid installment in the angeling franchise from Blueprint, and it’s still all about landing fisherman wilds to haul in cash fish in the bonus round. Wilds are then collected to increase the fish prizes, and this also provides extra spins. The volatility is high, and you can win up to 5,000x your stake.

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