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Big Bass Floats My Boat: How It Works

by Pragmatic Play

RTP
96.07%
Risk level
High
Max cash prize
5,000x
Reel grid
5x3
Winning ways
10 Lines
Launch date
12/02/2024
Big Bass Floats My Boat

The higher bonus buy does not raise the max win ceiling

The first Big Bass games sold no bonus buy. This one sells two, at 100x and 300x. Most of the series has also published a higher return than this build's 96.07%. The 300x tier is the draw here. It retriggers on every third Fisherman Wild instead of every fourth. An RK Boat symbol appears only there. Cell multipliers keep building wherever Money symbols land. What the higher price cannot lift is the ceiling. Max win stays at 5,000x on either round. The Ante Bet is the cheaper pressure, but switching it on shuts the buy off. In the recorded rounds, regular Free Spins paid 69.7x. The Super round paid 162.3x. Both came in under their buy price.

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Big Bass Floats My Boat: The Fisherman Only Works in Free Spins

The Theme Is the Paytable

Big Bass Floats My Boat opens on a warm sunset sea. A fisherman in yellow overalls works a red boat with a net. The reels sit underwater below a golden waterline. The setting splits into Reel fishing above and Deep sea below. That split organizes the whole build. The sky carries the characters. The water carries the symbols that pay. Volatility is High. The 5x3 grid runs ten Lines, left to right. The top payer is the RK boat, worth 200x on five of a kind. It is also the only icon that pays from two. The fisherman is not mascot dressing. He returns as the Wild that collects money fish, and only in Free Spins.

Three Prices, Nearly One Return

RouteCost at a $2.00 betPublished returnFisherman retrigger
Base game$2.0096.07%Not applicable
Ante Bet$3.0096.06%Not applicable
Buy Free Spins$200.0096.08%Every fourth
Buy Super Free Spins$600.0096.09%Every third

What the Wild Collects, and When

The Wild lands on all five reels during Free Spins, and Money Collect is the whole engine. Each money fish it touches pays its face value times the cell Multiplier. Every money symbol landing in a cell raises that cell by one. The values persist for the whole round. They reset on the next one. The collector is absent from the base game. Money symbols still appear there, sometimes with a multiplier badge of their own. Without a fisherman on the grid, no standard mechanic collects them. The base game shows the reward and withholds the tool. That is the clearest gap between what the screen promises and what the rules record.

A Catch With a Ceiling

Wins cap at 5,000x the total bet. Reaching the cap ends the round at once, and remaining Free Spins are forfeited. The trigger is uneven too. Three Scatters start ten Free Spins, four start fifteen, five start twenty. With exactly two on the grid, an octopus may convert another symbol into a third. The research records that as a chance, not a guarantee. The two buys are the clearest trade in the build. Standard costs 100x the bet, Super costs 300x, at almost identical published return. Super adds the RK boat and a faster retrigger. The screenshots do not settle what the boat does there. Most Big Bass games publish a higher return than this one.

See the game in action

What each symbol pays

x2 / x3 / x4 / x5

  • RK Boat

    High 0.50 / 5.00 / 20.00 / 200.00
  • Fishing Rod

    High — / 3.00 / 15.00 / 100.00
  • Dragonfly

    High — / 2.00 / 10.00 / 50.00
  • Tackle Box

    High — / 2.00 / 10.00 / 50.00
  • A

    Low — / 0.20 / 2.50 / 10.00
  • K

    Low — / 0.20 / 2.50 / 10.00
  • Q

    Low — / 0.20 / 1.00 / 5.00
  • J

    Low — / 0.20 / 1.00 / 5.00
  • 10

    Low — / 0.20 / 1.00 / 5.00
  • FISHERMAN WILD

    Wild — / — / — / —
  • SCATTER

    Scatter — / 10.00 / 15.00 / 20.00
  • MONEY Symbol

    Other — / — / — / —

Which devices does it work on

Autoplay mode
Yes

Features

  • Ante Bet
  • Free Spins
  • Money Collect
  • Multiplier
  • Respin
  • Scatter
  • Wild

How much can you bet

Starting bet
0.10
Maximum bet
375.00
Stake currency
USD

Setting and visual style

Reel fishing
Deep sea

Bonus offers

Buy bonus option
Yes
Higher ante stake
1.50x

Choose a bonus buy option

  • Standard Free SpinsCost 100.00x
  • Super Free SpinsCost 300.00x

Editor's rating

Key advantages

  • Neither buy taxes the return: standard pays 96.08%, super 96.09%, both above the 96.07% base.
  • The 300x super tier changes the round, not just the wait: retriggers hit every third fisherman, not fourth.

Where it falls short

  • The 5000x cap ends the round and forfeits remaining spins, a ceiling that stings most on a 300x buy.

Published 26/09/2026

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