Ugliest Catch
Ugliest Catch Stats
RTP & Maths
- RTP by Mode
- 96.11% main game · 96.11% Boosted xBet
- Hit Frequency
- 22.99
- Max Win Probability
- 1 in 20,000,000 rounds (simulated)
- Max Win Rule
- Applies in 50,000x the bet; the round ends when the total win exceeds it
Free Spins & Bonus
- Free Spins
- 3/4/5 Scatters = Lunker Spins 8 spins (6 net cells open) / Hawg Spins 9 spins (8 cells) / Honey Hole Spins 10 spins (all 10 cells) · 8-10 (max simulated: Lunker 14, Hawg 15, Honey Hole 16) spins · Retrigger: +1 Scatter in Lunker or Hawg Spins = +2 net cells opened and +1 spin; every 4th Fisherman Wild = Troll level up and +2 spins
- Bonus Buy
- Lunker Spins 94x · Hawg Spins 300x · Honey Hole Spins 866x · Lucky Draw 390x
- Ante Bet
- 1.75x stake · Boosted xBet: +75% cost for a Scatter on reel 2 every spin; not applicable in bonus modes; symbol pays unchanged
- Multipliers
- Fish Trophy 2x–5,000x; Big Berta 100x–5,000x; Troll level x2 / x3 / x10 (free spins only) · Collected Fish Trophy values are added, paid as a multiple of the bet, and in free spins multiplied by the Troll level
Symbols & Pays
- Wild
- Substitutes for all except Scatter
- Line Pays
- Top symbol 5x · Lowest 0.25x
Ugliest Catch Overview
The Ugliest Catch demo opens on a trophy wall, three crowned fish mounted over plaques reading 250x, 1,000x, and 5,000x. Then, the reels arrive with a lid on. Nets cover the top and bottom row of the 5×5 frame, so a spin uses only the middle three rows until a Scatter cuts a net open.
Trophy fish land on those rows with their plaques on show, and the plaques stay unpaid until a Fisherman Wild lands in an opened net. Head of Product Per Lindheimer framed this slot as Nolimit City taking on the “fishing games behemoth”. That genre is the one Big Bass Bonanza leads, and the cap on a round here is 50,000x.
Slot Features
xWays in the Nets
xWays lands only in a locked position, so a net has to open first. It then shows 2 to 4 copies of one paying symbol in that cell, adding win ways. An opened net can also hold a Fisherman Wild, Big Berta, or an ordinary symbol.
Fish Trophy and Big Berta
The Fish Trophy pays 2x for five as a symbol and also wears a plaque worth 2x, 5x, 25x, 100x, 250x, 1,000x, or 5,000x. Big Berta, the lake’s named monster fish, comes with 100x, 250x, 1,000x, or 5,000x. Neither value pays when the fish lands.
Kill N’ Grill Wild Fishing
Kill N’ Grill Wild Fishing is the collection. In regular play, it starts only when a golden Fisherman Wild appears in a net cell a Scatter has opened. In free spins, any Fisherman Wild on an open position starts it. The game adds up every trophy and Big Berta value in view and pays the total as a multiple of the bet, on top of any symbol win.
Free Spins
Lunker, Hawg and Honey Hole
Three Scatters start Lunker Spins with 6 net cells open and 8 spins. Four start Hawg Spins with 8 cells and 9 spins, and five start Honey Hole Spins with all 10 cells open and 10 spins. In Lunker or Hawg Spins, each extra Scatter opens 2 more cells and adds 1 spin, so a small start can grow toward the full frame.
The Troll on the Boat
A boat above the reels shows x2, x3, and x10, the Troll levels, which work only in free spins. Every fourth Fisherman Wild collected moves the Troll up a level and adds 2 spins, and the level multiplies the collected trophy total.
How to Play
Nets on Every Reel
Each of the five reels has a net cell at its top and another at its bottom, ten in all, and they stay shut until a Scatter lands on that reel. A Scatter opens both cells on its own reel. What comes out can be a Fisherman Wild, Big Berta, xWays, or a regular paying symbol, and the opened cells join the spin.
A win needs at least three of the same symbol on side-by-side reels, with reel 1 always the first of them. With every net closed, each reel offers three rows and the board has 243 ways to line a match up. Three piranhas on reels 1, 2, and 3 in three different rows still connect, and a second piranha on any of those reels doubles the win. Opened cells and xWays copies add rows, so the count climbs from 243.
RTP and Bet Range
€100 is the most a single spin can cost, and €0.20 the least. The game returns 96.11%. Its volatility thermometer reads Extreme, a step past the High this page gives it, which fits a frame whose ten nets open only for Scatters.
Boosted xBet adds 75% to the bet, 1.75x in total, and in return reel 2 lands a Scatter on every spin, one of the three that start Lunker Spins. Its return is the same figure, so the booster changes how often the nets open and leaves the RTP where it was. It does nothing once free spins begin, and it changes no symbol’s pay.
Paytable
The red piranha heads the table at 5x for five. The mohawk fish and the monocled fish follow at 3x and 2.4x, and the Fish Trophy pays 2x for five, with its plaque counted apart from that when a Wild collects it. The blue skull fish is close behind at 1.8x, and the five tackle-box symbols stay between 0.5x and 0.7x for five.
| Symbol | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red piranha | 1.2x | 2x | 5x |
| Mohawk fish | 0.9x | 1.5x | 3x |
| Monocled fish | 0.8x | 1.4x | 2.4x |
| Fish Trophy | 0.7x | 1.2x | 2x |
| Blue skull fish | 0.6x | 1x | 1.8x |
| Boots | 0.4x | 0.5x | 0.7x |
| Weight | 0.35x | 0.5x | 0.65x |
| Frog | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.6x |
| Worm can | 0.25x | 0.35x | 0.55x |
| Hook | 0.25x | 0.35x | 0.5x |
The Fisherman Wild has no row of its own. It becomes whichever symbol makes the best win, never the Scatter, and nothing else on the reels can collect a plaque. The Scatter pays nothing either. Its job is opening nets.
Ultimate Slots Verdict
Plaques worth up to 5,000x that only a Wild in an opened net can collect give this fishing parody a collect feature with a visible second condition, and those nets make it a better collect game than most of the genre it mocks.
✓ What We Like
- Trophy plaques from 2x to 5,000x are on the board before anything collects them
- Net cells on every reel mean each Scatter reshapes the spin
- The Scatter count sets how many nets start open in free spins: 6, 8, or all 10
- Troll levels of x2, x3, and x10 multiply the collected trophy total
- Boosted xBet at 1.75x leaves the return unchanged
- Toxic-lake art with Big Berta and a Troll in a boat gives the theme a sense of humour
✗ What Could Be Better
- The collect rule follows the fishing genre's standard formula
- 5x for five piranhas is the best symbol pay, leaving regular play thin
- In regular play only a golden Wild in an opened net collects, so most plaques go unpaid
Detailed Review
A Fishing Slot With Teeth
Most fishing slots on the site follow one loop, with valued fish landing and a fisherman in free spins collecting them. Ugliest Catch keeps the loop and changes where the fisherman has to stand. For this review, that change is what matters. In regular play, the golden Wild collects only from an opened net, so the plaques on show are a promise the board still has to keep.
The nets give the collection a second condition you can see. A Scatter has to open a cell, and the right Wild has to come out of it. In free spins, the condition relaxes, since any Fisherman Wild collects, and the Scatter count decides how much of the frame starts open: 6 cells, 8, or all 10. The Troll levels then multiply what the Wilds gather. That is why the bonus tiers mean more than a longer spin count. Nolimit City’s own split has 56.22 points of the return coming from the main game and 40.89 from the bonus, a lean toward the features that fits how much depends on the nets.
Strip the paint off, and the collect rule is the genre’s own, a Wild gathering fish values, with a toxic lake and a Troll on the boat added. The symbols give regular play little to work with, 5x for five piranhas at best. Bonus buys cost 94x for Lunker Spins, 300x for Hawg Spins, 390x for the Lucky Draw, and 866x for Honey Hole Spins, a steep entry to the only tier that opens all ten nets at once.
The plaques are built to be looked at. A 5,000x trophy on reel 1 with every net shut is the game showing its best number and withholding it, and the wait for a Scatter and a golden Wild on the same reel is where the long dry spells come from. The art does its share, a slime-green lake of mutant fish, boots, and worm cans, with plaques big enough to read at a glance through a frame of nets.
Nolimit City went back to the water in 2026 with Catfish Hunters, 243 ways and a 20,000x cap. The nets are what this one keeps to itself, and a stretch of free play shows how long they can stay shut between Scatters.
