Pragmatic Play · 2021 · tested 2026-10-22
Bigger Bass Bonanza
Just two of the 78 Bigger Bass Bonanza demo bonuses collected twelve fishermen for the 10x stage, and those two free spins rounds, 603x and 456.5x, were worth 16.8% of all bonus money.
- RTP measured / declared 94.1% 96.71%
- Hit frequency 13%
- Max win · no bonus 50x
- Free spins, natural 78 / 10,000
- Bonus frequency 7.8 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 94.1% against 96.71% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 12.6% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 128 rounds (78 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 51x the stake, mean 80.8x, trigger spin included; the biggest round paid 603.0x; the longest dry run was 53 spins.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 1.80 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 1.80 |
| RTP declared | 96.71% |
| RTP measured | 94.11% (approximate 95% CI 72.8–115.4) |
| Hit frequency | 13% · every 7.97 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 53 / 7.84 |
| Median hit | 2.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 50.0x · round 1773 |
| Free spins, natural | 78 · 7.8 bHz · every 128.2 spins · mean bonus round payout 80.8x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 98,940 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
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natural trigger · 78 in 10,000 spinsThree Scatters open ten natural free spins at a USD 1.20 stake; three fishermen land along the way and the card closes on USD 51.00. Recorded in a separate browser session, outside the statistical samples.
Across the whole run the 78 natural bonuses split into 7 under 20x, 31 between 20x and 50x, 19 between 50x and 100x and 21 at 100x or more, and together they made up 67% of everything the game returned. The wait between two triggers ran from 1 to 612 spins. Payout figures here cover the whole bonus round in ordinary stakes, the trigger spin included: its scatter pays and line wins count towards the bonus.
A round's fourth fisherman adds ten spins at the next multiplier stage, and so do the eighth and the twelfth; the opening 10, 15 or 20 spins are not counted. Thirty-one of the 78 natural rounds earned at least one such extension, 40 extensions in all, and no purchase sample exists on this build.
- triggers 78 1 per 128 spins
- every 128 spins gaps 1 to 612
- mean 80.8x bonus round median 51.0x stake
- best 603.0x round 7809
- spins per bonus 15.3 10 to 40 observed
- 01round 780940 spins603.0x
- 02round 679140 spins456.5x
- 03round 857435 spins247.5x
- 04round 84510 spins235.5x
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 157 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 211 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 404 |
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
6 rules screens from the game
Bigger Bass Bonanza widens the family grid to five reels and four rows with twelve paylines, and the demo opened at USD 1.80, a 0.15 coin on every line. Five boats pay 200x the bet, five rods 100x, the lure and the tackle box 50x, the royals 10x, and two boats already return half a bet. Fish are line symbols too, three of them pay one bet, but their real worth is the money value printed on each one.
On every spin each fish takes a value worth between 2x and 50x the total bet, or 4000x on the rare golden one, and only the fisherman Wild of the free spins can collect it. Three Scatters open ten free spins, four open fifteen and five open twenty; in this run 76 of 78 natural triggers came from three Scatters. A landing fisherman collects all the fish visible at that moment, and when a single Wild is on the screen more fish can drop in after the spin.
Fishermen are counted through the whole round. The fourth one adds ten spins and sets the collect multiplier to 2x, the eighth makes it 3x with another ten, and the twelfth makes it 10x with a final ten; the added spins follow once the current batch has run out. There is no fourth extension, so a round can run 40 spins at most from a three-Scatter start, and the whole round is capped at 4,000x the bet.
No purchase button and no Ante Bet exist on this build; the server offered no buy options at all, so every free spins round of the test was earned on the reels. Stakes run from USD 0.12 to USD 240, the rules page lists medium volatility, and the printed RTP is 96.71%.
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Retrigger
Multiplier
Bet range USD 0.12 – 240 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 1.80
Gallery
7 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Twelve fishermen, then 10xRounds 7809 and 6791 were the only two of 78 natural bonuses to collect twelve fishermen, and both ran the full 40 spins at the 10x stage: 603x and 456.5x the stake, USD 1,085.40 and USD 821.70, with sixteen and thirteen fishermen in the end. Their 10x collects were small fish made large, USD 252 for a screen of 2x, 5x, 2x and 5x fish on spin 35 of round 7809, and together the two rounds supplied 16.8% of all free-spin money.
Most rounds never got that far. Forty-seven of 78 ended before a fourth fisherman and averaged 42.78x over 10.1 spins, 24 reached 2x and averaged 96.79x, five reached 3x and averaged 181.6x; the ladder is visible in the money too, collects at 1x paid USD 6,472.80 from 199 screens, at 2x USD 2,221.20 from 51.
A different route produced round 845: ten spins, no multiplier, and a fisherman on spin 8 collecting USD 390.60 at once, 217x the stake in a single collect, the largest of the series. The 4000x fish was on a free-spin screen three times, in rounds 2874, 7142 and 9584, and no fisherman was there for it; in the base game it never showed at all.
The series finished at 94.11% over 10,000 rounds at USD 1.80, approximate 95% CI 72.83% to 115.39%, with the bonuses supplying 66.95% of everything paid and a natural trigger once per 128.21 rounds; the balance closed 589 stakes down. Base spins returned 31.1% of the stake on their own, a hit landed on 12.55% of rounds, and the longest run of blank spins stretched 53 rounds, from 4249 to 4301.
- Two rounds at the 10x stage paid 603x and 456.5x the stake
- Twenty-four bonuses that reached 2x averaged 96.79x, more than twice the 42.78x of the 47 that stayed at 1x
- A single collect on spin 8 of round 845 was worth USD 390.60, 217x the stake
- Natural triggers averaged one per 128.21 rounds, 7.8 per thousand, and paid 66.95% of all money
- Three times a 4000x fish came into view in free spins, each time with no fisherman on the screen
- Ten opening spins and nothing more was the shape of 46 rounds, at 42.64x on average
- Ninety blank runs of 20 spins or more, the longest 53
Test record
10,000 rounds · 0 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game on the official demo server, every request and response logged; the game offers no bonus purchase, so every feature in the sample came from ordinary spins. 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
- 13%rounds that paid
- 603xbiggest round
- 1 / 128natural bonus rate
- 53longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-10-22 measured return94.11%-2.6 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 72.8–115.4%
- rounds that paid
- 13%
- biggest round
- 603x · round 7,809
- longest dry streak
- 53
- natural bonuses
- 78 · one per 128 rounds
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 98,940
- deepest drawdown
- 1,447x
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 1.8 bet; recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.71%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-22.
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
7 questions · answered from the logHow many fishermen does a Bigger Bass Bonanza round need before the multiplier moves?
Four. The fourth fisherman of a round adds ten spins and sets 2x for every later collect, the eighth adds another ten at 3x and the twelfth a final ten at 10x. In 10,000 demo rounds 24 of 78 natural bonuses reached 2x, five reached 3x and two reached 10x.
Which round was the biggest Bigger Bass Bonanza bonus of the demo?
Round 7809: 40 spins, sixteen fishermen, fifteen collects worth USD 1,071 in fish and USD 14.40 from paylines, 603x the USD 1.80 stake. Round 6791 followed with 456.5x, also over 40 spins.
Can Bigger Bass Bonanza free spins be bought on this build?
No. Neither a buy button nor an Ante Bet exists on the demo build served to the lab, so the 78 free spins rounds of the test all came from three or more Scatters, one per 128.21 rounds on average.
Did any fisherman collect the 4000x fish during the test?
No. It appeared on three free spins, in rounds 2874, 7142 and 9584, each time without a fisherman on the screen; in 10,000 base-game rounds it did not appear once. Fish are collected only when a fisherman Wild lands on the same free spin.
Fish or paylines: which pays a Bigger Bass Bonanza bonus?
Fish, 94.5% of it in this run: the 78 natural rounds paid USD 11,326.50 in free spins, USD 10,699.20 of it from fisherman collects and USD 627.30 from line wins.
What size is a typical Bigger Bass Bonanza free spins round?
The median natural round paid 51x the stake, the mean 80.78x, and 46 of the 78 rounds stopped after their ten opening spins at 42.64x on average. Rounds that reached twenty spins averaged 96.79x, thirty spins 165.12x.
Against its printed 96.71% RTP, where did the Bigger Bass Bonanza demo land?
Within three points: 94.11% over 10,000 rounds, with the balance 589 stakes down at the end. Two 40-spin rounds, 603x and 456.5x, account for 11.3% of all payouts, and the result would have been 88.09% without the larger of them.
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