Big Bass Floats My Boat is a fishing-themed video slot from Pragmatic Play and part of the developer’s hugely successful Big Bass Bonanza slot series.
The game is played on a classic 5x3 reel set with 10 fixed paylines and offers high volatility gameplay and a max win potential of 5,000x.
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The gameplay in Big Bass Floats My Boat is easy to understand. Your objective is to match pay symbols along paylines to earn payouts.
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Click on the game tile to launch the title, and you’ll be transported to a lush marine setting with the sun setting above the bubbly reel set. The protagonist fisherman stands in his fishing trawler boat with his nets already cast, waiting to collect fish money symbols and award prizes.
The game controls are directly below the reels. Click on the plus and minus buttons to reveal your wagering options and set your bet size. Hit the iconic Pragmatic Play spin button to start your game.
Fans of the series will see familiar reel symbols with colourful, low-paying 10-ace royals appearing alongside a variety of fishing gear, including a tackle box and fishing rod, as well as dragonflies, and the top-paying fishing boat, which offers a reward for matching 2 of a kind and a top prize of 200x for matching 5 of a kind.
You’ll also find fish money symbols on the reels and two bonus symbols—the jumping bass scatter symbol and the fisherman wild, who only shows his face in the free spins bound round.
To earn a payout, you must land matching symbols on consecutive reels from left to right along one of the game’s 10 fixed paylines.
Symbol | Match 2 | Match 3 | Match 4 | Match 5 |
10 | - | 0.20 | 1.00 | 5.00 |
Jack | - | 0.20 | 1.00 | 5.00 |
Queen | - | 0.20 | 1.00 | 5.00 |
King | - | 0.20 | 2.50 | 10.00 |
Ace | - | 0.20 | 2.50 | 10.00 |
Tackle Box | - | 2.00 | 10.00 | 50.00 |
Dragonfly | - | 2.00 | 10.00 | 50.00 |
Fishing Rod | - | 3.00 | 15.00 | 100.00 |
Fishing Boat | 0.50 | 5.00 | 20.00 | 200.00 |
In keeping with the rest of the series, the features are mostly confined to the game’s free spins bonus, which is where the activity really steps up.
While the fish money symbols are found on the reels in the base game, they don’t award payouts for completing paylines. On a base game spin, the cash values of fish money symbols can sometimes be randomly collected and awarded. When this happens, a random multiplier can appear on the symbol that will multiply its value.
Fish money symbols can hold values ranging from 2x to 50x.
To trigger the free spins bonus round, you must land 3, 4 or 5 scatters in a single spin to earn 10, 15 or 20 free spins, respectively.
If only 2 scatters land in a base game spin, there is a chance to land an additional scatter through one of two features:
An octopus might appear to turn a regular pay symbol into a scatter to help you trigger the bonus.
If the current scatters can move down one position without dropping off the grid, they might move one position down while the other reels respin for a second chance for that final scatter to land.
Fisherman wilds appear in the bonus round to collect any fish money symbols that land on the reels with them. They also act as wild symbols, substituting for regular pay symbols to help you complete paylines.
In the bonus round, each position on the grid has a multiplier that starts from 1x. Every time a fish money symbol lands, the multiplier for that position is increased by 1x. When fisherman wilds collect money symbols, the multiplier is applied to their value.
Fisherman wilds that land in the feature are also collected in the progression bar at the top of the reels. Every fourth fisherman wild collected retrigger the feature and award 10 more free spins.
The octopus can make an appearance in the bonus, delivering fisherman wilds or fish money symbols on non-winning spins.
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