Big Bass Mission Fishin

Theme and Design

Pragmatic Play Find Yet Another Way To Dress Up This Popular Slot

How far can Pragmatic Play stretch this story? A long way it seems. We’ve had our big bass fisherman on holidays, in the Amazon, at the races, gone psycho, and even in Arthurian legend mode. And now, he’s gone all Mission Impossible on us, turning a simple fishing trip into a dramatic cinematic event. The standard fishing boat is exchange for something speedier, the rod and reel are hi tech and the setting has changed to night time at the lake. It's all good fun and if you like your goofiness, you’ll love it.

RTP and Variance

Big Bass Mission Fishin has 3 available RTP rates – 96.5%, 95.5% and 94.5%. Your slot site operator will choose which rate to set the game to. Try to find sites where the rate is at 96.5%. I recommend playing at MrQ from Lindar Media which consistently runs Pragmatic Play slots at the optimum RTP setting. If you want to know which rate the game is on where you play, hit the ‘I’ button under the reels, then scroll through the screens until you see Game Rules. The RTP is normally published at the bottom of that page.

Compared to other Big Bass slots, 96.5% is a good optimum rate. A few in the series are a little higher – Big Bass Splash and the original Big Bass Bonanza come in at 96.71% for example – but there is little difference between that and 96.5% to be honest.

And it’s no surprise to see that Fishing Mission is a high variance slot. Every other Big Bass game is too, so why break with tradition?! Expect a tough time triggering that free spins round, but the chance for some good payouts if you do.

Maximum Win

If you were hoping that Mission Fishin would follow in the footsteps of Day at the Races and Keeping It Reel, both of which offer 10,000x max wins, you’ll be disappointed. The max payout here is 5,000x which is more in line with the potential you find in earlier Big Bass releases like Bigger Bass Bonanza (4,000x) and Big Bass. Splash (5,000x).

Symbols and Paytable

The format of the game has not changed. We are playing on 5 reels with 3 rows on each and 10 paylines. Wins are triggered by landing 3 or more identical symbols on a line from left to right, starting at the left most reel.

There are 10 pay symbols. Low value ones are the cards, 10 through to Ace, valued at from 0.2x for 3 10s up to 10x for 5 Aces. The premiums are the bass shoal, the tackle box, the rod and reel, the may fly, and the speedboat. These are valued at from 1x for 3 bass shoals up to 200x for 5 speedboats.

The wild, as ever, as the fisherman. In this case he’s donned his scuba gear. He ONLY appears in free spins to substitute for any pay symbol to complete a line AND to collect fish symbols with cash values. He has no pay value of his own.

Features and Gameplay

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 4^th 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.