Big Bass Vegas 1000: Pragmatic Play's Fisherman Hits the Strip

Pragmatic Play has sent its Big Bass fisherman to the Las Vegas Strip. In Big Bass Vegas 1000 he swaps the tackle box for a tuxedo, and the usual lake gives way to a neon-lit city backdrop. The studio presents it as a more premium take on the series, built around free spins and special cash prizes.

Scatters and the bonus round

The bonus is triggered in the base game by 3, 4 or 5 scatters, which award 15, 20 or 25 free spins respectively. If only two scatters land, a third can sometimes be reeled onto the grid to start the feature anyway, which gives a near miss a second chance.

Money symbols are the main source of value. They carry fish values of up to 1,000x the bet, and the free spins round is designed around collecting them.

Fisherman wilds and multipliers

During the free spins, red and blue fisherman wilds collect money symbols. Each wild picks up the sum of all the fish money symbols showing on the grid at that moment, so a crowded screen makes a wild more valuable.

The round can also be extended. When a fourth wild of the same colour lands, the player gets 10 extra free spins. Each retrigger raises a win multiplier: 2x on the first, 3x on the second and 10x on the third.

Three extra features add to the cycle:

• Bazooka: can turn symbols into fish money symbols.
• Dynamite: works the same way, converting symbols into money symbols.
• Hook: can pull fishermen onto the screen, creating more chances to land cash prizes.

RTP and top prize

The RTP shown on Pragmatic Play's official game page is 96.53%. The studio quotes a maximum win of 15,000x the bet. That is well above the 1,000x cap on individual money symbols, so reaching the top end depends on the free spins multipliers and the wilds collecting several symbols at once.

Big Bass Vegas 1000 is a Pragmatic Play release with a fishing-in-Vegas theme, and its top prize is listed at 15,000x the stake.