No deposit bonus
100 free spins
Wagering 25x Max cashout not published
- Licence
- Curacao (CGA)
- Since
- 2017
- Withdrawal limit
- No Limits
- Company
- Orakum N.V
Pragmatic Play slot
Big Bass Bonanza: demo, the fish collect and RTP 96.71%
No orbs, no tumbles, no thousand-times bombs: the fisherman lands, gathers every fish on the reels, and the round pays what the fish were worth. That plain mechanic gives Big Bass Bonanza the highest printed RTP in our slot records, 96.71%, and a medium-high label that makes it the friendliest Pragmatic Play game here for a small balance. Demo, paytable and casinos below.
- 96.71%RTP
- Med-HighVolatility
- x2100Max win
- 0.1 - 250Bet range
Free play
Big Bass Bonanza demo with play money
The studio build the casinos run, with virtual credits. Sit through one free spins round to see a fisherman collect and a fourth fisherman retrigger.
Free play with virtual credits from Pragmatic Play. Nothing to install, no account.
Paytable
Float, rod, tackle box: what five on a line pay
Values are for 5 of a kind, x bet on one of the 10 lines. The table is unusually generous at the bottom: every card rank pays 10x for five, the same as the fish symbol pays as a line win.
| Symbol | Pays |
|---|---|
| Float | 200x |
| Fishing Rod | 100x |
| Tackle Box | 50x |
| Dragonfly | 50x |
| Fish | 20x |
| A | 10x |
| K | 10x |
| Q | 10x |
| J | 10x |
| 10 | 10x |
Five floats pay 200x, the rod 100x, the tackle box and the dragonfly 50x each. The fish appears twice in the game's logic: as a 20x line symbol in the base game, and as a money symbol in free spins with a printed value up to 2,000x that the fisherman collects. The scatter pays outside this table and opens the bonus.
Mechanics
Ten lines on 5x3 and a bet that starts at 0.1
The layout is 5-3 with 10 fixed paylines read from the left. Each spin settles at once: there is no tumble, no cluster and no scatter pay. In the base game the fisherman is a plain wild on the lines; the collect behaviour switches on only in free spins.
Bets run from 0.1 to 250 per spin, and the 0.1 floor is half the usual Pragmatic Play minimum in our records, which matters to a player stretching a small balance through wagering. The studio's list carries no ante bet and no buy feature for this title.
Note
A fish money symbol in the base game is decoration. Its value is paid only when a fisherman collects it inside the free spins.
Features
Collect, retrigger, multiply: 10 to 20 free spins
The studio lists: Free Spins 10-20, Money symbols up to 2,000x, Wild collects money symbols, Retrigger with multipliers up to 10x. Three, four or five scatters award 10 to 20 free spins. Inside the round the fish carry printed money values up to 2,000x the bet, and every fisherman that lands collects all of them in view and pays the total. Fishermen are counted: every fourth one retriggers the round and steps the multiplier on collected values up, 2x first, then 3x, then 10x.
The round therefore has a shape: the early collects are paid at face value, and a round that reaches its third retrigger pays every later collect ten times over. The 2100x ceiling caps the total, which is why a fish printed at 2,000x under a 10x multiplier does not pay what the arithmetic suggests. With no buy feature, every round is earned from the scatters, which keeps the price of a bonus tied to the stake.
How this differs from the tumbling games
Sweet Bonanza and Gates of Olympus pay through multipliers applied to a chain; Big Bass Bonanza pays through printed values gathered by a wild. The first can produce a single enormous spin; the second produces many medium rounds. The volatility labels follow from that.
Volatility and RTP
Medium-high volatility: the right shape for a code
The record rates the game med-high volatility, and the high line values at the bottom of the table explain it: five card ranks pay 10x, so the base game returns something often. For a balance from a no deposit code that is the profile to want. Wagering on a spins win is counted per stake, and a game that pays small and often carries a balance through more of the count than one that waits for a bonus; the guide to wagering on no deposit bonuses shows the arithmetic. The price is the ceiling: a lucky round here is a fraction of a lucky round on Gates of Olympus.
RTP is 96.71% on the studio page, the top of our slot records. A catalogue source prints the maximum as 2,100x in its own notation, the same figure. Pragmatic Play offers lower return settings to casinos that want them, so the info panel inside the game in your account is the figure that applies: how to check a slot's RTP.
Real money
Casinos where Big Bass Bonanza is in the lobby
Every casino on this list has the Pragmatic Play lobby, so the original fisherman game, with its fish printed to 2,000x and no buy button, loads with play money before login and for real money after it. Ratings and promo codes are taken from our reviews.
No deposit bonus100 free spins
Wagering 20x Max cashout €100 / $100
- Licence
- Curacao (CGA)
- Since
- 2013
- Withdrawal limit
- EUR 10,000 a day at base status
- Company
- Globonet B.V
Welcome offerA welcome offer now exists, but Stake publishes no figures for it
- Licence
- Curacao (CGA)
- Since
- 2017
- Company
- Medium Rare N.V
No deposit bonus100 free spins
Wagering x20 on free-spin winnings Max cashout not published
- Licence
- Curacao (CGA)
- Since
- 2017
- Withdrawal limit
- USD 1,000 per day
- Company
- Vavada B.V
No deposit bonus50 free spins
Wagering 40x Max cashout not published
- Licence
- Anjouan (AGA)
- Since
- 2023
- Withdrawal limit
- EUR 10,000 a month
- Company
- Cricketwin Ltd
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Quick answers
How does the fisherman collect the fish
In free spins the fisherman is the wild. When one lands, every fish money symbol in view is collected and its printed value, up to 2,000x, is paid. Every fourth fisherman retriggers the round and raises the multiplier on the collected values: 2x, then 3x, then 10x.
Why is the RTP of Big Bass Bonanza higher than the other Pragmatic Play games here
The studio prints 96.71%, the highest figure among the slots in our records; only Aviator, a crash game, prints more. The game returns more of its money through frequent small line wins and fish collects rather than through one rare multiplier round, which is also why the volatility label is medium-high instead of high.
What is the maximum win
2100x the bet, which is low next to the tumbling games. The fish values go up to 2,000x, the retrigger multiplier up to 10x, and the ceiling caps whatever the combination would otherwise pay.
Does the demo include the free spins
Yes. The studio build with virtual credits has the same reels, paytable, fisherman collects and retrigger ladder as the casino game. The one thing a casino can change is the RTP setting.
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