Pragmatic Play · 2023
A five-reel Pragmatic Play fishing slot with high volatility and two collect-style bonuses; here are its figures, mechanics and payouts before you cast off.
Slot reference
So you can judge the stake, the pace and the ceiling without guessing.
| What to check | Setting |
|---|---|
| Provider | Pragmatic Play |
| RTP | 96.07% / 96.09% |
| Volatility | High |
| Grid | 5x3 |
| Maximum win multiplier | x10,000 |
| Top win at top stake | A$3,750,000 |
| Released | 27/03/2023 |
Fishing lines run across five reels and three rows, and the catch is a video slot from Reel Kingdom, shown under Pragmatic Play. Ten fixed paylines pay left to right, starting at the leftmost reel, and two matching symbols are enough for the smallest win. Money symbols and scatters, rather than the top line hit, are what most rounds are really chasing.
Three or more money symbols clear the reel area into a fishing net and start a hold-and-respin round where every fresh catch resets four respins and joins the total. Three or more scatters lead elsewhere: free spins with a fisherman wild that gathers money values on a twelve-slot meter and adds spins as it fills.
Five Steps to the First Cast
Follow one round from the bet you pick to the free spins and the moment you stop.
Choose your stake on the bet control, anywhere from A$0.10 up to A$375 a spin. Bets of A$0.50 and A$10 appear in this page's examples, and the ten paylines stay fixed at every stake.
Reels spin and land five columns of three symbols; winning lines pay left to right from the leftmost reel, and some symbols pay from as few as two of a kind. Each win adds to your balance straight away.
Any single spin can bring in the Fisherman wild, which substitutes for most symbols, or three or more MONEY symbols, which launch the Hold and Spinner round. Scatters open the free spins instead.
Three, four or five bass scatters award ten, fifteen or twenty free spins, with the Fisherman collecting fish money values on a twelve-slot meter. Every fourth wild collected adds ten more spins and lifts the multiplier.
Set a loss limit and a time limit before that first spin, and log the session off when either one is reached. The National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858 is there if it stops feeling like fun.
What the bonuses bring
After this you will know how each round starts on the reels and what it hands you.
Landing 3, 4 or 5 SCATTER symbols awards 10, 15 or 20 spins. The Fisherman WILD appears on every reel, substitutes for all symbols except SCATTER and MONEY, and collects FISH MONEY amounts; every fourth WILD adds 10 spins and lifts the collection multiplier.
Plain spinningA trail of spins
Three or more MONEY symbols start the respin round: the grid turns into a fishing net, the other cells become decorative filler tiles, and you begin with 4 respins. Each new MONEY symbol resets the counter to 4 and joins the total, which you receive when no respins remain.
The base gridThe running total
Ten fixed paylines pay left to right from the leftmost reel, with 3 or more MONEY symbols opening the respin round and 3 or more SCATTER symbols opening the free spins. Every round begins here, on the plain 5x3 grid.
The lobbyTen paylines
Three Views of the Water
See how the lake, the catch and the bonus round actually look on screen.
Each bonus buy costs 100 times the total bet, so at the top example bet of A$10 it costs A$1,000.
| Paid option | Price paid | RTP |
|---|---|---|
| Free Spins for 100x | x100 · A$1,000 | – |
| Hold & Spinner at 100x | x100 · A$1,000 | – |
Return to player is the share of each A$100 staked that the game pays back over a very long run. The version this lobby runs is shown in the game rules.
| Return setting | RTP | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Variant 1 | 96.09% | No |
| Variant 2 | 96.07% | Yes |
Two ways in
Removes the worry that trying the game costs anything or starts a real stake.
Reels spin in the demo with no stake at all, and nothing paid out there ever reaches your balance. Switching to the paid game calls for a Gday Casino account and the legal age of 18 and over.
Start playingReels stop before a single MONEY symbol lands, and nobody at this table can tell you how often three of them will gather. The Hold and Spinner round arrives when it arrives, not on a schedule. One evening of play is decided by chance alone, and a published return figure describes millions of rounds, not the one in front of you.
Two return figures sit behind this title, and the version in use here appears only inside the game rules panel, opened from the info button on the reels. Checking it there before you spin tells you which of the two you are playing; nothing on the lobby tile or the paytable does.
The top prize of x10,000 the bet is a ceiling the reels can reach, not a target to aim for, and the spins that get there are vanishingly rare. Play the cast for the fishing, the meter and the respins, and treat that figure as the outer edge of what the maths allows.
This is an 18+ game. If play stops feeling like a game, the National Gambling Helpline is on 1800 858 858, and BetStop is the national self-exclusion register.
Pick a figure you can lose without it mattering, and set it before the reels start turning. That number is your evening, not the opening bid.
Choose a point where you walk away whether you are ahead or behind, and hold to it after a big Hold & Spinner payout too. Leaving on a win is not a wasted session.
Deposit and loss limits sit in your account settings and apply across every game, so the cap holds even on a fast, high volatility session like this one. Set them low and adjust deliberately.
Take a short pause when the sessions start running together, or use BetStop to block your own access for longer. Neither is a failure, and both are reversible in their own time.
Clear the basics first
Straight answers on this game, kept brief the way we like everything on Gday.
This game runs at 96.07 or 96.09 percent return, so the two versions differ very slightly and both sit above average for a high volatility slot. Over a A$100 stake the difference is a few cents.
Where the newer titles in the series top out near 96.5 percent with smaller maximum wins, this one holds a slightly lower return while paying up to x10,000. It also carries Hold & Spinner alongside the free spins round.
Five matching symbols on a fixed line at A$10 a spin can return A$100,000, and that is x10,000 the stake. The same multiple applies at every bet level up to the A$375 maximum.
Stakes start at A$0.10 a spin and reach A$375, with ten fixed paylines always in play. Tables on this page use A$0.50 and A$10 purely as examples of what a round costs.
You can open the reels in demo mode here and spin with practice credits rather than your own balance. Nothing about how the round runs changes, so it is a sensible first stop before real stakes.
High volatility means wins land less often but tend to arrive in bigger bursts, including long quiet spells between them. Treat the swings as part of the design rather than a sign of what comes next.
After your fishing session
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