Fishin’ Frenzy The Big Catch keeps it fairly straightforward when it comes to features. Thankfully, they’ve kept the ever-popular ‘fishing’ round, with just a few tweaks. Let’s take a look at them.
Wild Symbol
First up is the wild symbol, which is the fisherman. In the base game he substitutes for all pay symbols. In the free spins game he acts as part of the cash-collect feature, ‘reeling in’ whichever fish land on the reels. In the Big Catch Fish Upgrade feature he can also upgrade the fish that land, and trigger more free spins, but we’ll cover that in more detail shortly.
Scatter Symbol
The scatter symbol is a fishing boat (aptly named Scatter). If you land 3 scatter symbols then the free spins round begins with 10 free spins. If you land 4, you get 15 free spins, and 5 gets you 20. Once you’re in the free spins feature, you can’t land scatters.
3 Scatters triggers the free spins roundFish Symbols
The fish symbols come in seven different sizes, each with its own cash value, 2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x and a whopping 50x the bet. In the base game the fish make wins regardless of their size, paying up to 20x the bet for 5x symbols. In the free spins feature the value of the fish also comes into play. Let’s take a look at how that works now.
Free Spins
Once you land 3 or more scatter symbols the free spins round starts. The round works like normal except a clever cash collect feature, probably the single feature that made this series so popular. If a fisherman lands on the reels at any point he collects all fish that are currently on the reels, taking into account their cash prize number (from 2x up to 50x the bet).
The Big Catch Fish Upgrade
Fishin’ Frenzy The Big Catch includes a key update to how the the cash collect feature works. There’s a little display to the left of the free spins game that counts up how many fishermen land. Once you land four fishermen, the Big Catch Fish Upgrade switches out the lowest paying fish symbol currently on the reels and replaced it with a more valuable one. It also gives you an additional 5 free spins.
Landing 4 fishermen extends the round by 5 spins and upgrades fish symbolsThis gets even more exciting when you trigger this upgrade three or more times. Eventually, all of the fish that land in the free spins round will have cash values of 50x the bet. Allowing you to make those monster wins.