Everything is loaded into the free spins round in Big Bass Mission Fishin, so the base game is just about waiting for scatters to land and picking up pay table wins. Then the game moves into a more interesting phase with classic Big Bass features and a Stack the Cash bonus.
Here is how it all works:
Free Spins With Modifiers and Cash Collects
Triggering Free Spins With Scatter
The scatter symbol is represented by the leaping bass symbol. You need 3 or more to trigger the free spins round, but if you land 2, there are near miss features to help get you over the line …
If 2 scatters appear on a spin and they can move down one space each without dropping off the reels then they do so before a re-spin occurs. The process repeats until a third scatter appears or one or both of the two scatters drops off.
Or, a hook may randomly appear and pull one reel upwards to bring a scatter into view so you have 3 visible.
Once you have at least 3 scatters in view, the free spins round is triggered as follows:
- 3 scatters – 10 free spins
- 4 scatters – 15 free spins
- 5 scatters – 20 free spins
Pick Me Game To Choose Modiifers
Before the round begins you play a Pick Me game to choose from icons on the screen which reveal modifiers that will help you throughout the feature. You keep picking until a boot is revealed. These are the modifiers you can reveal.
More Fish – there are more bass fish on the reels with cash values available to collect
More Fisherman Wilds – there are more wilds on the reels giving you more chance to trigger a cash collect
More Dynamites, Hooks and Bazookas – the odds of triggering one of these random features is increased during the round
Upgrade To Level 2 – the round starts at level 2 giving you a head start on reaching the top level of multipliers
+ 2 Spins – 2 spins are added to your total at the start of the round and 2 more spins are awarded each time you level up.
Cash Collects During Free Spins
The game is simple. Every bass fish has a cash value attached to it – 2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x, 200x, 500x or 5,000x. Every time a wild lands at the same time as a fish, the cash value is collected.
To help you along the way, when wilds land with no fish, or fish land with no wilds, a second chance is awarded. Dynamite may explode to bring fish onto the reels, or a bazooka may go off to change all symbols on the reels when no fish are visible. And when fish are visible but no wilds, then a hook may appear to drag a reel up and reveal a fisherman wild!
So there are plenty of chances to turn losing spins into cash collects.
Level-Ups and Multipliers
Wild symbols are collected in a meter above the reels too. And each 4th one unlocks a new level as follows:
- 4 Wilds – 10 more spins and 2x global win multiplier
- 8 Wilds – 10 more spins and 3x global win multiplier
- 12 Wilds – 10 more spins and 10x global win multiplier
Stack The Cash Feature
Unusually for a Big Bass game there is an additional feature that you can choose instead of the free spins round. You get the chance to pick it when the round triggers and it works like this:
A new reel set with only fish coins with values of 1x to 25x and blanks appears. You get 4 spins and provided a fish coin lands, the counter re-sets to 4 each time. If you fill a reel with coins then the values are collected by a robo crab that sits under each reel and the reel is cleared. Random bombs may drop on a reel after a coin has landed too, doubling the value of all coins on it and in the robo crab beneath.
The round ends when you run out of spins. At which point, the value of all robo crabs is added together and paid out.
