How it plays
Bigger Bass Bonanza is the 2021 sequel to Big Bass Bonanza, developed by Reel Kingdom and published under the Pragmatic Play label. It expands the original to a 5-reel, 4-row grid with 12 paylines, with bets from 0.12 to 240 per spin.
Money-fish symbols land throughout the base game carrying cash values, and a five-of-a-kind of them pays directly.
Bonus features
Landing 3, 4 or 5 scatters awards 10, 15 or 20 free spins. During the bonus, the fisherman wild collects the values of all visible money fish.
Every fourth wild collected retriggers the feature with 10 additional spins and steps up a progressive win multiplier, reaching as high as 10x. Money-fish values can reach 4,000x the stake, which is also the game's published maximum win.
RTP versions
The official Pragmatic Play page lists Bigger Bass Bonanza at 96.71% RTP — unusually high for the studio's catalogue. Lower operator configurations of roughly 95.67% and 94.62% are also distributed.
Volatility is rated high.
Verdict
Bigger Bass Bonanza is a textbook sequel: same fisherman-wild collection loop as the original, one extra row, 12 lines instead of 10, and a top-tier 96.71% default RTP. It went on to anchor one of the most successful slot franchises of the decade.
