Big Catch Bass Fishing Megaways

Blueprint took the Reel Kingdom “Big Bass” formula, filed the serial numbers half-off, bolted on a Megaways engine, and called it Big Catch Bass Fishing Megaways. It landed in October 2023. I’ve spun enough fishing slots to have a permanent tan line from the reservoir, so let me tell you where this one lands.

Theme & presentation

It’s a fishing slot. You’ve seen the cabin, the lake, the tackle-box symbols, the grinning fisherman. Blueprint’s art is clean and readable rather than beautiful, and the whole thing leans into the well-worn Big Bass template so hard that if you’ve played the Reel Kingdom originals you’ll feel a strong sense of deja vu. The soundtrack is inoffensive banjo-adjacent noodling that I muted by spin five. Presentation-wise it’s competent and familiar, nothing more. It doesn’t embarrass itself; it also doesn’t try to surprise you.

How it plays

Six reels, the Megaways cascade mechanic, and up to 15,625 ways to win. Symbols tumble, wins clear, new symbols drop. Bet from 10p up to 100 a spin. Base game is the usual Megaways rhythm: long dry stretches where you’re watching low-pay tackle symbols evaporate, punctuated by the occasional decent cascade. It plays medium-to-high volatility and it feels it. Nothing here reinvents Megaways, but the ways-count reshuffling every spin does keep the base game from going completely comatose.

The feature

The whole game is a delivery vehicle for the free spins round, triggered by landing bonus scatters (three for 10 spins, scaling up to 50 for six scatters). Before the spins start you get a pick ‘n’ click “pick a fish” screen where you catch bass to reveal upgrades, extra picks, a minimum-Megaways guarantee, or symbol multipliers. Then the actual round leans on the Fisherman wild, which collects Cash-tag fish values from the reels and nudges you up a meter above the grid, unlocking more spins and rising win multipliers. It’s the Big Bass “money collect” idea wearing a Megaways coat, and it’s genuinely the only time the game gets my pulse up. Land four Fishermen and you retrigger with a multiplier boost, which is where the ceiling lives.

The numbers, straight

• Max win: 5,000x your stake on a single spin, per other review outlets. Heads-up: a few aggregators list a much bigger figure (50,000x / “up to 250,000”), and some sources tie a raised ceiling to a bonus-buy version, so if the top prize matters to you, confirm it in the paytable at your specific casino before you spin.
• RTP: 96% as the headline figure. Blueprint games commonly ship in operator-selectable tiers, so check the paytable at your specific casino before you spin.
• Volatility: Medium-High.
• Reels/ways: 6 reels, Megaways, up to 15,625 ways to win.
• Hit rhythm: Streaky and top-heavy. Long base-game droughts; the money is almost entirely in the free spins, so budget for patience.

Verdict

Big Catch Bass Fishing Megaways is a perfectly serviceable, thoroughly unoriginal fishing slot that borrows its best idea from a better-known family. The Megaways layer adds variety without adding soul, and a 5,000x ceiling is fine but hardly headline-grabbing for a modern high-vol release. If you love the fisherman-collect loop you’ll have fun; everyone else has seen this exact catch before. Worth noting for context: another entry in the wider Big Bass franchise, Pragmatic Play/Reel Kingdom’s Big Bass Boom (a different studio, not a Blueprint sibling), ships in an enhanced-RTP tier as high as ~97.97%, which makes this game’s plain 96% look a touch stingy by comparison, though the two are built by different providers.

SlotWhizz rating: 3.3/5. Competent and occasionally fun in the bonus, but derivative and default-tiered at 96%, which means the house is quietly keeping roughly 4% of everything staked over time no matter how the fish are biting.

18+. Demo for fun, not profit. Nothing you land in demo mode is real, and nothing removes the built-in house advantage once you play for cash. Play responsibly.