Big Bass Splash: every fish on the reef is worth casting for
A quiet canyon, turquoise water and a fisherman who never misses. Big Bass Splash hides real cash value inside its fish symbols, from a modest 2x up to a 5000x total bet ceiling.
Every money symbol value, one card at a time
The fish paying symbols double as MONEY symbols. Each spin gives them a fresh random value from this list, collected by the fisherman wild once free spins begin.
How the fishing bonus actually plays out
Three moving parts decide how much a Big Bass Splash free spins round can return.
Wild symbol
The fisherman appears on all reels once free spins start and substitutes for every symbol except SCATTER, sweeping up any money value showing on the grid.
Scatter symbol
The bass fish scatter lands across all five reels and is the key that opens the free spins feature in the base game.
Buy feature
Skip the wait and buy the free spins round directly for 100x the current total bet, straight from the base game.
Reading the reef: what makes Big Bass Splash tick
Reel Kingdom did something quietly clever with Big Bass Splash: they took the fish paying symbol, the most ordinary icon on the reels, and turned it into the entire bonus engine. On a 5x3 grid where every symbol pays left to right on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel, that fish can be worth as little as 2x your total bet in the base game, or as much as 5000x once the free spins feature kicks in.
The trigger is the bass SCATTER, which can land on all five reels at once. From there, the fisherman WILD takes over: during free spins it appears on every reel, substitutes for all symbols bar SCATTER, and collects every money value it lands beside. That collection carries across the whole round, so a run of low fish values early on can still end in a chain of 500x, 1666x, 2500x or 5000x hits before the feature runs out.
Not everyone wants to wait for scatters to line up naturally. Big Bass Splash lets you buy straight into the feature for 100x the current total bet, which drops you into the wild-collecting free spins immediately. However you arrive there, the ceiling is the same for everyone: total win is capped at 5000x total bet, and the second that cap is reached the round stops dead, pays out, and forfeits any spins left on the clock.
At an RTP of 96.71%, the maths behind Big Bass Splash rewards exactly the behaviour its theme suggests: patience by the water, and a willingness to let the fisherman keep casting until the money symbols add up.