Pragmatic Play · 2021
Bigger Bass Bonanza is a five-reel, four-row fishing slot from Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom, paying 12 fixed lines. This page covers how it runs, what pays, and what cannot be known.
What Each Figure Means For You
Vegastars Casino pages lead with the numbers, so you decide before the reels move.
| What It Covers | At a Glance |
|---|---|
| Provider | Pragmatic Play |
| RTP | 96.71% |
| Volatility | High |
| Grid | 5x4 |
| Max win multiple | x4,000 |
| Max win in money | A$960,000 |
| Release date | 16/09/2021 |
Twelve fixed paylines sit across a 5x4 grid of five reels and four rows, and the theme is fishing: a dinghy, a rod and reel and a lure lead the picture symbols. Land matching symbols on adjacent reels running left to right from the leftmost reel and you win, and the fewest that pay is two.
Cash values hang on the catch. Fish carry money amounts instead of line prizes, and in the free spins the fisherman wild scoops up every cash value in view, so a single spin can span the whole screen. Every fourth gathering wild adds spins and lifts the collection multiplier.
A$100 staked is the basis of the money figures. Over a long run the return to player is that share, while short sessions vary widely. The version Vegastars Casino runs is shown in the game rules.
| Version | RTP | Factory setting |
|---|---|---|
| Edition 1 | 96.71% | Yes |
Learn how bonuses pay
Read this when scatters land and you want to know how the bonus plays out.
3, 4 or 5 SCATTER symbols start 10, 15 or 20 free spins. The WILD fisherman appears only here and collects the cash values of all MONEY symbols on screen when it lands. Every 4th collected WILD retriggers +10 spins with x2, x3 or x10 multiplier, max 3 retriggers.
Base gameSpins and cash
5x4 grid with 12 fixed paylines. Wins are counted left to right on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel. MONEY-valued fish and regular symbols pay as the paytable shows.
Before any spinSymbol wins
While you spin
Photographed from the lobby you are about to play, with the stakes spelled out first.
Round by round
Removes the worry that wins appear only when the whole grid fills.
Choose a stake between A$0.12 and A$240. Bigger Bass Bonanza gives you 20 ways of reading one bet, so a modest stake plays out differently from A$5 at the top of the scale.
Twelve fixed paylines run left to right from the leftmost reel, and the grid sits 5 reels wide and 4 tall. Two matching symbols on the first reels already pay, so small wins show up without a full line.
Cash-carrying fish sit on the reels while the base game runs, worth whatever value they display. The fisherman wild stays locked away for now, so those values wait until the free spins open.
Three, four or five scatters hand you ten, fifteen or twenty spins. Once there, the fisherman lands, scoops up every cash value on the screen and drags the round towards its capped payout.
Set your spend ceiling before the reels move, at a figure you would not chase if the fish stay quiet. One more spin at A$5 costs exactly what the last one did, however the round ended.
A 96.71% return is an average over millions of spins, not a promise for tonight. How often the fisherman's round arrives is set spin by spin, and no session is due a catch because the last one was dry. Any result, on an A$0.40 stake or an A$5 stake, comes down to chance.
Which version of Bigger Bass Bonanza is running on these reels shows up only in the game rules, opened from the slot itself. That figure is the one that matters at the moment you play, because return percentages are set per version rather than printed on the screen.
A round capped at 4,000 times the stake can be worth A$960,000 at the top bet, but that ceiling is a limit, not a target. Reaching it takes a near-perfect free spins run with the collected money symbols stacking into the biggest multiplier, and most rounds finish far below it.
Players must be 18+. Help is available through the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858, and the national self-exclusion register is BetStop.
Decide how much you can afford to lose before you open the game. Keep that amount apart from money for bills.
Set the point where you stop before you start, and keep to it even after a big win in Bigger Bass Bonanza.
Set deposit and loss limits in your account before you add money, and keep them in place while you play Bigger Bass Bonanza.
When Bigger Bass Bonanza stops being fun, take a break or self-exclude through BetStop. Trying to win back losses is the sign to stop.
Keep exploring
You are not short of options: five more Pragmatic Play titles sit ready to open
Bigger Bass Bonanza
Short, plain answers from Vegastars Casino, with each figure set out as this game sets it.
3, 4 or 5 SCATTER symbols start the Free Spins round, giving 10, 15 or 20 spins. The Free Spins round is the only place the WILD fisherman appears. Each WILD that lands collects the cash values of all MONEY symbols on screen.
5x4 grid and 12 fixed paylines sit at high volatility. High volatility means wins are less frequent but can be larger, so dry stretches between wins are part of the game. How often the bonus lands cannot be known in advance.
96.71% is the RTP of this version, calculated on A$100 staked, so A$96.71 returns on average over a very large number of spins. An RTP is a long-run average and says nothing about a single session.
x4,000 is the most a round can pay, measured against the bet. At a bet of A$5, that is A$20,000, and at the highest bet of A$240 it reaches A$960,000.
96.71% beats every other Big Bass version, which run at 96.50% to 96.52%. This slot's maximum win of x4,000 sits below the x5,000 of four versions, while Big Bass Splash 1000 goes up to x25,000.
Senior editor with a background in casino compliance reviews
I answer for the licence and company pages, checking that the Gaming Control Board Curaçao details match the operator, and I review how every page reads on a phone before it goes live.
We use cookies to keep the site working and, with your consent, to improve it.
