The Big Bass franchise spent two years teaching players to expect enormous numbers. The ×1000 line, the Megaways build, Amazon Xtreme, each one pushed the top prize past 10,000x. Then Trophy Catch turns up in 2026 and quietly caps at 5,000x. For a series that kept raising its ceiling, that looks like a retreat. Spend time in the collect round, though, and this fishing slot is doing something the headline number never mentions.
If you have spent time with Big Bass Blast or any of its siblings, the core loop here is instantly familiar. Fish carry cash values, a Fisherman Wild sweeps them up during free spins, and scatters open the round. What is new to Trophy Catch is bolted onto that collect round: two systems Blast never ran, and both are the reason to look past the modest cap.
Land two scatters in the main game, and they collect into one of three coloured fishermen: green, red or blue. Green is worth 20 free spins, red 15 and blue 10, and the collection can randomly launch the feature there and then, carrying that fisherman’s modifier in with it. Miss the third scatter and a hook animation can still reel one in. It is a main-game layer the plain collect siblings don’t run, and it means two scatters are never quite the dead end they look.
Inside free spins, every fourth Fisherman Wild you collect retriggers the feature. Each retrigger adds ten spins and lifts the collection multiplier — 2x on the first, 3x on the second, then a jump to 10x on the third. Three retriggers is the limit, and the wilds you have banked stay live to the end of the round. That 10x tier is the real prize the cap undersells, though reaching it asks for twelve collected wilds across a single feature.
Whichever fisherman collected your scatters decides the modifier. x2 All Wins doubles every collection and line win, More Fish crowds extra money symbols onto the strips, and More Men does the same for wilds. On top of that, bazooka and hook animations can drop random money and wild symbols into a spin partway through the round. The money symbols themselves run from a humble 2x up to a single fish worth 5,000x — one symbol landing right can be the whole game.
Two buy options sit on the panel. Buy Free Spins costs 100x your stake and guarantees the 3, 4 or 5 scatter trigger. Buy Super Free Spins runs to 300x and starts the round with all three modifiers already live, x2 All Wins, More Fish and More Men firing from spin one. Both are listed as specs on the screen, nothing more. The Ante Bet, badged as a higher chance to win the feature, raises your stake for more scatters on the reels and switches the standard buy-in off while it’s active.
Two scatter systems run side by side in Trophy Catch, and keeping them apart is the first job. The direct ladder is the one that sets your spins, with three, four or five scatters awarding 10, 15 or 20 free spins. Separately, any two scatters in the main game collect into a coloured fisherman that can launch the round on its own terms with a modifier attached. Bets start at 10p, and the Fisherman Wilds only appear once free spins begin, so the reels you spin to trigger the round look leaner than the collect feature they lead into.
| Trigger | Result |
|---|---|
| 3 scatters | 10 free spins |
| 4 scatters | 15 free spins |
| 5 scatters | 20 free spins |
| 1st retrigger (every 4th wild) | 2x collect, +10 spins |
| 2nd retrigger | 3x collect, +10 spins |
| 3rd retrigger | 10x collect, +10 spins |
The premium tackle symbols carry the standard reels, shown below as multiples of your total stake at the £2 spin the paytable was read on. Money symbols are the exception, taking random values from 2x to a single fish worth the full 5,000x during free spins.
| Symbol | 3 of a kind | 4 of a kind | 5 of a kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Float bobber | 5x | 20x | 200x |
| Dragonfly | 3x | 15x | 100x |
| Fishing rod | 2x | 10x | 50x |
| Tackle box | 2x | 10x | 50x |
| Fish lures | 1x | 5x | 20x |
| A / K | 0.2x | 2.5x | 10x |
| Q / J / 10 | 0.2x | 1x | 5x |
Against the recent Big Bass entries chasing five-figure top prizes, Trophy Catch looks modest, and the 5,000x cap won't shift that first impression. What redeems it is the collect round, where the coloured-fisherman collection and the retrigger climb to 10x give the feature more moving parts than most siblings, and depth rather than size is where this one earns its place.
Trophy Catch arrives deep into a franchise that has recently inflated top prizes. Where Big Bass Amazon Xtreme and the Megaways build pushed past 10,000x, this entry stops at 5,000x, and on very high volatility, that’s a number to weigh before you play. High variance normally buys a bigger target. Here, the swings pay for a collect round that can hit the cap off one lucky fish and then close the instant it lands, with any remaining spins forfeited.
The redemption is in how much that round now holds. The retrigger climb from 2x to 3x to 10x rewards a long feature in a way the flat-collect siblings never did, and the coloured-fisherman collection means the main game is quietly feeding the round before it even starts. There’s more to track and more to build toward than a plain Big Bass session offers.
The case against is fair. For plenty of sessions, the practical experience is still land scatters, collect fish, watch the total climb, and the coloured fishermen change the trimming more than the substance. Very high volatility means long stretches with nothing, and the 10x tier asks for twelve collected wilds in one round, so most features resolve well below it. The demo runs at 96.50% across every mode, though operators can serve lower configurations of the same game, so it pays to check wherever you land after the free play.
Set beside the wider Big Bass shelf, Trophy Catch trades a big top prize for a busier feature, and how you weigh that depends on what you want from a fishing trip. Players chasing the franchise’s largest numbers will find more in the Megaways and ×1000 versions. Anyone who enjoys the collect loop and wants a fresh ladder to work up will get the most out of this one.
| Game | RTP | Max win | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bass Trophy Catch | 96.5% | 5,000x | Very High |
| Big Bass Splash | 96.71% | 5,000x | Very High |
| Big Bass Bonanza | 96.71% | 2,100x | High |
| Big Bass Bonanza 1000 | 96.51% | 20,000x | High |
| Big Bass Splash 1000 | 96.52% | 25,000x | High |
| Big Bass Amazon Xtreme | 96.07% | 10,000x | High |
