Big Bass Mission Fishin’

Pragmatic PlayRTP 96.5%Volatility MediumMax Win 5,000x3.9 out of 5
Big Bass Mission Fishin’Pragmatic Play
Big Bass Mission Fishin' reels with four money fish on hazard-striped panels, grapple guns and card ranks under the sea

Game Stats

RTP96.5%
VolatilityMedium
Max Win5,000x
Paylines10
Reels5x3
Min Bet$0.10
Bonus RoundYes
ScattersYes
StudioReel Kingdom
ReleasedJune 2024
✓ Verified in-gameSee the rules screens
RTP & Maths
RTP by Mode
Ante Bet 96.50%, Buy Feature 96.50%
Max Win Rule
5,000x bet; the round ends when reached
Free Spins & Bonus
Free Spins
3/4/5 scatters = 10/15/20 free spins, or Stack the Cash instead · Retrigger: every 4th Wild: +10 spins, 2x / 3x / 10x (levels 2-4); no retrigger after level 4
Bonus Buy
Buy Feature (Free Spins or Stack the Cash) 100x
Ante Bet
15x: more scatters, buy disabled stake · Disables the buy
Symbols & Pays
Money Symbols
2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 200x, 500x or 5000x base bet; Stack the Cash coins 1x–10x or 25x
Line Pays
Top symbol 200x · Lowest 0.2x
About Game

Big Bass Mission Fishin’ Demo by Pragmatic Play

Three scatters in Big Bass Mission Fishin’ don’t start a bonus. They start a choice. You pick free spins with a set of modifiers, or Stack the Cash, a respin game that drops the fish and the fisherman and plays with coins and robo-crabs instead. Reel Kingdom dressed the slot as a night dive from a speedboat, and the two rounds behave so differently that the pick is the main decision the game hands you, and the reason to try it in free play.

Bonus Rounds in Free Play

The Mission Choice

When 3, 4 or 5 scatters land, the screen asks which round you want. On the free spins side, those counts give 10, 15 or 20 spins. Two scatters can still be rescued at random, either by a respin that drops the scatters one row while the other reels spin again, or by a hook that hauls a reel up to show another one.

Files Before the Free Spins

Choose free spins and you open files until a boot appears and ends the pick. Each file can reveal More Fish, More Fisherman, More Dynamites, Hooks and Bazookas, Start From Level 2, or +2 Spins, which adds two spins at the start and two more on every retrigger. During the round, the diver fisherman is the Wild, and he collects the value of every fish on screen when he lands. Every 4th one retriggers the free spins with 10 more and lifts the collection multiplier a level, first to 2x, then 3x, then 10x, and the fourth level is the last.

Stack the Cash and the Robo-Crabs

Big Bass Mission Fishin' Stack the Cash rules with the Fish Coin symbol
The Stack the Cash rules panel with the orange Fish Coin, worth 1x to 10x or 25x the bet

The other option wipes the normal symbols from the reels, leaving only Fish Coins and blanks. A robo-crab sits under each reel, you start with 4 respins, and every new coin sticks and resets it to 4. Fill a reel with coins and its values drop into the crab below while the reel clears for more. Whenever a new coin lands, a bomb falls on a random reel and doubles the coins on it and the crab beneath. Once no respins are left, the game adds up the crabs and pays the total.

Ante and the Two-Way Buy

A 15x ante (normal play is 10x) puts extra scatters in play, but the buy is switched off while it’s on. Without it, 100x buys a bonus, and you still choose which of the two rounds you get.

How to Play

Coins Against Fish

Big Bass Mission Fishin' reels with five money fish and a grapple gun
Five money fish down the right half of the grid, their values collected only by a fisherman in free spins

The two rounds pay from different pools, and that’s what to weigh when the choice screen appears. Free spins collect fish worth 2x to 5,000x the bet, with a collection multiplier on later levels. Stack the Cash coins are worth 1x to 10x, or 25x, and grow through the bombs and the crab collections. Both are part of the same Big Bass family that began with Big Bass Bonanza, but only the free spins use the fisherman.

Slot RTP

Mission Fishin’ returns 96.50% whichever way you play, ante, either bought round or neither. The rules label the game Medium volatility. A bonus round stops at 5,000x the bet.

Game Paytable

Ten lines pay across the 5×3 grid. Two speedboats already pay 0.5x, a pay no other symbol has for a pair, and A and K pay double what Q, J and 10 pay for five.

Symbol 2 3 4 5
Speedboat 0.5x 5x 20x 200x
Dragonfly – 3x 15x 100x
Grapple Gun – 2x 10x 50x
Tackle Box – 2x 10x 50x
Fish (money) – 1x 5x 20x
A – 0.2x 2.5x 10x
K – 0.2x 2.5x 10x
Q – 0.2x 1x 5x
J – 0.2x 1x 5x
10 – 0.2x 1x 5x

Ultimate Slots Verdict

Big Bass Mission Fishin' gives the series a second bonus and lets you pick it every time, either from the trigger or the 100x buy.

The free spins are the familiar collect with a strong file pick, and Stack the Cash is a sticky-coin respin game with robo-crabs and doubling bombs. The main game stays plain.

Hits What we like

  • You choose free spins or Stack the Cash on every trigger and every buy
  • The file pick can start free spins at level 2 or add 2 spins to every retrigger
  • Bombs double a reel and the robo-crab under it in Stack the Cash
  • Fish in free spins range up to 5,000x the bet

Misses What could be better

  • Line pays in the main game are modest
  • Two-scatter rescues are random, not guaranteed
  • The ante disables the buy

Detailed Review

Big Bass Mission Fishin’ Demo Review

Mission Fishin’ earns its place in the series with the choice, and it’s a real one. Most of the game is the familiar fisherman collect, ten lines and a speedboat as the top symbol. What changes the experience is that every trigger, and every buy, asks you which bonus you want.

Free spins here are the classic Big Bass round with a better setup screen. The file pick can stack the odds before the round begins, and Start From Level 2 is the one to hope for, since it begins the round at a 2x collection multiplier. The ladder still stops at 10x after the fourth level, so the round has a known shape, and the fish range up to 5,000x is where its top end comes from.

Stack the Cash is the surprise. Coins are small, 1x to 25x, but they stick, reset the respins and feed crabs that get doubled by bombs, so the round builds on itself instead of waiting for a fisherman. It plays like a hold-and-win game, and it means a player who dislikes waiting for Wild and fish to land together has another route.

The weak spot is the main game. Line pays are modest, the fish only matter in free spins, and the scatter helpers are random rather than reliable, so our review score rests on the two bonus rounds. In free play, it’s worth trying both before deciding which you’d pick.

Big Bass Series at a Glance

All Big Bass Series ›
GameRTPMax winVolatility
Big Bass Mission Fishin’96.5%5,000xMedium
Big Bass Splash96.71%5,000xVery High
Big Bass Bonanza96.71%2,100xHigh
Big Bass Bonanza 100096.51%20,000xHigh
Big Bass Splash 100096.52%25,000xHigh
Big Bass Amazon Xtreme96.07%10,000xHigh

Frequently Asked Questions

In Big Bass Mission Fishin', the normal symbols disappear and only Fish Coins and blanks are left, with a robo-crab under each reel. You get 4 respins, each new coin resets them to 4, and full reels bank their values into the crab below.
Whenever at least one new Fish Coin lands in Stack the Cash, a bomb drops on a random reel. It doubles the values of all the coins on that reel and the robo-crab underneath.
No. When you use the buy feature in Big Bass Mission Fishin', you choose whether the 100x gets you free spins or Stack the Cash.
More Fish, More Fisherman, More Dynamites, Hooks and Bazookas, Start From Level 2, and +2 Spins. You keep opening files until a boot appears and ends the pick.
It goes to 2x, 3x and then 10x, one step for every 4th Wild collected, and each step adds 10 spins. After the fourth level, the Big Bass Mission Fishin' round can't retrigger again.
Sometimes. The scatters can move down one position while the other reels respin, or a hook can pull a reel up to reveal another scatter, and neither is guaranteed.