Blueprint Gaming · tested 2026-10-12
Big Catch Bass Fishing
Twelve of the 83 free spins features in the Big Catch Bass Fishing demo stopped at their first Pick a Fish and averaged 27x, while the 71 that earned a second pick returned 76x.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 1.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 1.00 |
| RTP declared | 95.00% |
| RTP measured | 92.35% (approximate 95% CI 77.6–107.1) |
| Hit frequency | 18% · every 5.64 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 43 / 5.62 |
| Median hit | 1.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 65.0x · round 45 |
| Free spins, natural | 83 · 8.3 bHz · every 120.5 spins · mean FS-only payout 68.9x stake |
| Balance start → end | 1,000 → 235 |
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Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 100 eachmean 0.82x · median 0.57× price (USD 57.00) · 39 of 50 below price · best 4.35x · worst 0.02x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 16.9 / 10–40 |
| Retriggered | 40% |
| Money-symbol collects, avg win | 67.14 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
The free games grow in two ways: a completed Big Catch trail stage adds ten games and a pick, and the extra-games upgrade adds two. Twenty-seven of the 83 natural features received one or the other, 23 of them the trail's ten games, and 15 of the 50 bought tickets reached a trail stage.
- Spent
- USD 5,00050 × USD 100
- Returned
- USD 4,08981.78% · approximate 95% CI 59–105%
- Net
- −USD 911−9.1 buys
- Break-even or better
- 11 / 5022%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 4 / 508%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~121 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 121 ordinary rounds in this sample. Stakes multiplied by this interval measure gross wagering, not the net cost of obtaining a bonus. Purchase returns above include the complete purchased round and are divided by the ticket price.
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 201 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 486 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 6642 |
One run, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
9 rules screens from the game
Big Catch Bass Fishing lays out fifteen positions, five reels by three rows, under ten fixed lines, each line paying only its best combination counted from reel one. Ten, Jack and Queen are worth 0.5x the bet for three and 5x for five, King and Ace 0.5x to 10x, the Tackle Box and the Dragonfly from 2x up to 50x, the Fishing Rod from 2.5x up to 100x. A pair of Boats already pays 0.5x and five of them 200x, while the fish, whatever cash tag they carry, count as one symbol worth 1x, 5x or 20x for three to five on a line.
Ten, 15 or 20 free games follow three, four or five of the leaping-bass Bonus symbols. Pick a Fish comes first: the chosen fish switches on one of nine upgrades, four of them extra symbols, the others more fish, more fishermen, bigger collects, a respin or extra games, and a later pick adds another. The Fisherman exists only in the free games, where he is the Wild on any line and collects the cash tags of every fish on the screen; each Fisherman also lights one step of the Big Catch trail, and a completed trail stage brings a pick plus ten more games at x2, then x3 and finally x10.
Buy Bonus on the left starts the free games for 100 times the stake. Both modes are listed at 95.00% RTP on the rules screen, USD 0.10 is the smallest stake and USD 100.00 the largest, and a single game stops at 4,000x the total bet or 250,000.00, whichever comes first.
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Bet range USD 0.10 – 100 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 1.00
Gallery
6 frames from the demo session
Verdict
The second pick made the featurePick a Fish opened every feature, and what mattered was whether a second pick followed. Twelve of the 83 natural features ended with their opening pick alone and averaged 27.0x; the 71 that reached another pick, 59 of them two in all, averaged 76.0x. The trail did the rest: 23 features completed a stage and took ten extra games, averaging 116.2x against 50.8x for the 60 that did not, and nine more picked up two games from the extra-games choice.
Round 537 had three picks, two extra tag symbols and an extra Fisherman, then a trail stage on game ten; its 20 games collected USD 226.00 in six catches and closed at 247.5x, the best feature of the test. Fish tags were the feature's money everywhere: USD 4,695.00 of the USD 5,719.00 paid in natural free games, 82.1%, came from 230 catches, and the Fisherman stood on 21.5% of all free games played.
Fifty Buy Bonus tickets at USD 100.00 returned USD 4,089.00, 81.78%, with 39 of them below the price, median 0.570x or USD 57.00. Ticket 32 ran to 35 games through a trail stage and paid USD 434.50, and the 15 tickets with a trail stage averaged USD 166.00 against USD 45.70 for the other 35. Game eleven of ticket three brought the largest single catch of the test, USD 136.00.
Base play paid on 17.72% of rounds, 146 of them at 10x or better, and the top ordinary spin stopped at USD 65.00, a Boat line in round 45. Free games supplied 61.9% of all money, and whether a feature was worth having came down to the picks it collected rather than the games it started with: the 75 ten-game starts averaged 69.0x, almost exactly the overall mean.
- Seventy-one of the 83 features reached a second Pick a Fish and averaged 76.0x the stake.
- Twenty-three features completed a trail stage for ten extra games and averaged 116.2x.
- Round 537 collected USD 226.00 in six catches over 20 games and paid 247.5x.
- Only three of the 83 natural features ended below 10x, the lowest at 0.5x in round 1621.
- A feature that got no second pick averaged 27.0x, twelve of them in the test.
- Of the fifty USD 100.00 tickets, 39 returned less than their price, and ticket 28 paid USD 1.50.
- Gaps of 463 rounds, from 3717 to 4180, and 461 rounds, from 9228 to 9689, passed without a feature.
- Ordinary spins never beat USD 65.00 in 10,000 rounds, and 146 of them reached 10x.
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game plus a separate series of bonus purchases on the official demo server, every request and response logged. When the game is tested again, the new run is added here and the figures on this page combine all runs into one sample.
- 10,000rounds logged
- 18%rounds that paid
- 248xbiggest round
- 1 / 120natural bonus rate
- 0.82xmean of 50 buys
- 43longest dry streak
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 1 bet; 50 bonus buys at USD 100 each (100x); recorded on the official Blueprint Gaming demo server (jurisdiction ZZ, RTP profile 95.0%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-12.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, intermediate steps (cascades, respins), free spins, collect. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. The text was read against the log by an editor before publication. How we test →
FAQ
5 questions · answered from the logWhich Pick a Fish upgrade paid best in the Big Catch Bass Fishing demo?
Taken as the first choice, an extra Fisherman led with an 82.6x mean over seven features, extra tag symbol one followed at 76.0x over twelve, and extra fish at 71.4x over fifteen; the extra-games pick trailed at 50.6x over five. The gap between one pick and two, 27.0x against 76.0x, was larger than any gap between the upgrades.
Over fifty 100x tickets, what did Buy Bonus return?
A return of USD 4,089.00 on USD 5,000.00 staked, 81.78%, with a USD 57.00 median and 39 losing tickets. The 15 tickets that completed a trail stage averaged USD 166.00, the other 35 USD 45.70, so the price buys ten games and a pick, not the trail.
In what way does the Fisherman collect in Big Catch Bass Fishing?
Each fish shows a cash tag, and a Fisherman in view collects all of them at once. He appeared on 21.5% of the free games in this test and made 377 catches across natural and bought features, the largest USD 136.00 on game eleven of ticket three.
At what pace did the free games arrive, and how long did they last?
Eighty-three natural features across the 10,000 rounds, roughly one every 120, or 8.3 bHz in lab units, with the longest gap at 463 rounds. Seventy-five started with ten games, three with fifteen from four Bonus symbols, and 27 grew afterwards, 23 of them by the trail's ten games.
What explains 92% against the printed 95%?
Ten thousand rounds at USD 1.00 returned 92.35% against the 95.00% printed for both modes, and an approximate 95% CI between 77.58% and 107.11% covers the declared figure; the interval describes this sample, not the next session. Without round 537 the other 9,999 rounds returned 89.88%.
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