Fishin' Frenzy The Big Catch Slot – Free Demo

Ten win lines and a long wait for the boat

Fishin' Frenzy The Big Catch is a 5 reel slot run across 10 fixed win lines. It sits in a series that Reel Time Gaming has built out elsewhere, alongside Fishin' Frenzy Even Bigger Catch and Fishin' Frenzy Megaways. Wins pay left to right. I ran it at 1.00 a spin, 0.10 a line, from a starting balance of 1,000.00. I devoted 480 spins pursuing the bonus, and I did not have to wait all that long for it: the first free spins arrived on spin 75, and five more followed, though waiting for the bonus to trigger in Fishin' Frenzy The Big Catch is not the most thrilling experience in all honesty; the bonus, however, is a different animal entirely. The gaps between those six rounds ran from 24 spins to 165.

There's truly not super much happening in the base game, and essentially you're just waiting for the bonus to land, so fish pay by count rather than by size. My longest run without a win was 16 spins, ending on spin 95. Three or more matching fish on a win line pay the same regardless of how large the fish is. Of the 480 spins, 160 paid something, and 93 of those paid less than the stake. It can result in some respectable payouts if they align, but be ready for teasing however. The balance dipped to 909.10 at its lowest.

The fisherman only collects in free spins

Land three or more bonus symbols in view to trigger the bonus round, and the quantity of free spins granted depends on the count of scatters landing to trigger the feature, 10, 15 or 20 for three, four or five. Five of my six rounds opened at 20 spins and one at 10. On in, any fisherman landing in view is wild. That collecting behaviour belongs to the free spins round and nowhere else. It pays the amount shown on every fish in view on that spin.

A free spins screen from the game makes the arithmetic plain: the counter reads Free Game 8 of 10, a fisherman sits on reel three marked 44.00, the fish on screen run from 2.00 to 15.00, and 148.00 has been paid in the round with spins still to come. Fishermen are collected too: every 4 of them upgrades the smallest fish to the next size up and awards an extra 5 spins, and collect enough of them and every fish becomes the Big Catch, worth 50 times the bet apiece. In 480 spins I got there once.

Our Minty Verdict: Six free spins rounds across 480 spins delivered 1,196.40 credits of the 1,468.00 I won, and the single round on spin 426 accounted for 945 times the stake of that — the base game is the wait, and the collection is the game.

945 times the stake on spin 426

It is all about the free spins in this slot, and in my 480 spins the free spins delivered 1,196.40 credits of the 1,468.00 won, 81% of everything. The balance finished at 1,988.00 from 1,000.00, a session return of 305.8%. The round on spin 426 alone yielded 945 times the stake. It started from a balance of 1,051.40 and left it at 1,995.40, the high point of the run. The fishermen kept landing until every fish was the Big Catch.