Pragmatic Play · 2023
Big Bass – Hold & Spinner is a high volatility fishing slot from Pragmatic Play, played on a 5x3 grid with 10 fixed paylines.
Demo is free. Real play needs a Casumo Casino account and age 18+.
On the 5x3 reels, a win forms when two or more matching symbols land from the leftmost reel on one of 10 fixed paylines. The theme is fishing, and the symbols carry it: a bass scatter, a bobber, a rod and reel, a dragonfly, a tackle box, a fish catch, and the card symbols A, K, Q and J. Hold & Spinner turns the grid into a fishing net.
Three, four or five scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. The fisherman wild substitutes for all symbols except scatters and money, and collects fish money on a 12-slot meter. Every fourth collected wild adds 10 spins and a multiplier from x2 up to x10. Money symbols open Hold & Spinner, where each new money hit resets the respins to four.
Big Bass numbers
You will leave knowing what each number means for the stake you put on the reels.
| What it tells | Shown as |
|---|---|
| Provider | Pragmatic Play |
| Return to player | 96.07% / 96.09% |
| Volatility | High |
| Grid | 5x3 |
| Maximum win multiple | x10,000 |
| Maximum win in money | A$3,750,000 |
| Release date | 27/03/2023 |
Rather than waiting for the reels to trigger it, the buy starts the feature for 100 times the total bet, or A$1,000 at A$10.
| Feature | Price tag | RTP |
|---|---|---|
| Free Spins at 100x | x100 · A$1,000 | – |
| Hold & Spinner at 100x | x100 · A$1,000 | – |
Each spin on the reels returns part of the stake. Return to player shows how much of an A$100 stake comes back over a long run. The version running here appears in the game rules.
| Payback | RTP | Standard choice |
|---|---|---|
| Version 1 | 96.09% | Excluded |
| Version 2 | 96.07% | Supported |
Know your bet
After this, you will know how a bet turns into a payout, step by step.
The reels sit still until you pick a bet from A$0.10 up to A$375 a spin. The paytable shows its values for A$0.20, so compare wins at that stake.
Matching symbols that land left to right on one of the 10 fixed paylines form a win. Two matching symbols can already pay, counted from the leftmost reel.
Symbols on the reels trigger the bonuses: three or more SCATTER start Free Spins, and three or more MONEY start Hold & Spinner. Wild and Multiplier also sit in the base game.
Landing three, four or five SCATTER symbols on the reels starts Free Spins with 10, 15 or 20 spins. Fisherman Wilds then appear on every reel and fill a 12-slot meter.
Each spin takes your bet from the balance, so set a limit before the first reel moves. Need support? Call the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858.
Big Bass modes
Here is how each bonus starts and what happens inside it, before your first spin.
Three, four or five Scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. Wild substitutes for all but Scatter and Money and collects Fish Money on a 12-slot meter. Every 4th Wild collected retriggers 10 spins, up to 3 times, with multipliers x2, x3 and x10 at 4th, 8th and 12th.
Base GameFree spins
Three or more Money symbols trigger Hold & Spinner, and the grid re-skins as a fishing net. The round starts with 4 respins. Each new Money hit resets the respin counter to 4 and adds its value to the total. The total is awarded when the respins run out.
Base GameCollected cash
Symbols on the 10 fixed paylines pay from left to right, starting on the leftmost reel. Each spin covers 5 reels x 3 rows. Until a trigger lands, wins are paid per line on each spin.
Bet placedLine wins
Four screens, one game
Useful when you want to see the bonus screens before deciding to play this slot.
The bonus rounds land on the reels at random, and nobody can tell when the next Free Spins or Hold & Spinner will start. A session can bring several of them or none at all. Whatever the RTP, the result of one session is random, so a long quiet stretch tells you nothing about what comes next, and a fast start tells you nothing either.
The reels pay out on one of the two RTP versions, and only the game rules show which one is running. Check the rules before you compare returns, since each figure in the return table belongs to one version only.
The reels reach the maximum win very rarely, so treat that figure as a ceiling rather than a target. Big Bass – Hold & Spinner can stop far short of it on any session, and a big hit in one session is no sign of what the next one will pay.
Practise without a deposit
Use it when you want to learn the features before you stake real money.
Each spin in the demo costs no money and pays nothing. The real game needs an account with Casumo Casino and a player aged 18 or older.
PlayPlayers must be 18+. Free help is available from the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858, and BetStop is the self-exclusion register.
Decide how much you are willing to lose before the first spin, and treat that amount as the full cost of the session.
Choose your stopping point before you begin, and keep to it after a big win as well as after a loss.
Set a deposit limit and a loss limit in your account settings before you open the game, so they are active when the reels start turning.
When the game stops being fun, take a break, and self-exclude if short breaks do not help you stop.
Beyond Big Bass
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Four Quick Answers
Casumo Casino lists the rules first, so you know what each spin can do.
Every spin on the 5x3 grid can be staked from A$0.10 up to A$375 in this market. Examples on this page use A$0.20, A$5 and A$10, but those are illustrations only.
Each spin on the 5x3 grid runs at high volatility, so results can swing widely from one session to the next. Wins can reach up to 10,000 times the bet, but nobody can know in advance when or whether that happens.
On the same 5x3 grid, the RTP versions run at 96.07 and 96.09, below the 96.50 to 96.52 range of the other Big Bass titles. Its maximum win is 10,000 times the bet, against 5,000 times in four sister titles and 25,000 times in Big Bass Splash 1000.
Each bonus can be bought for 100 times the total bet, so Free Spins and Hold & Spinner each cost A$1,000 at an A$10 bet. The Ante Bet multiplies the stake by 1.5, so A$10 becomes A$15.
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