Big Catch Even Bigger Bass Slot by Blueprint Gaming

This is the original entry in Blueprint's Even Bigger Bass spin-off line, the predecessor to the 2,500x v2 nerf and the Megaways v3 that restored the ceiling. The trail-unlock collector engine is shared with Fishin' Frenzy Even Bigger Fish 2/3 and Kong Even Bigger Bananas 4, which is to say if you've played any of those, you already know roughly what the buttons do. What you might not know is what makes this build different from the next two: the original keeps the 10,000x cap and the standard 6x4 grid, no reel-height variance, no Megaways scaffolding around it.

Cash Prize tiles land on every reel 1 through 6 on every spin, carrying printed cash values. The Collect symbol (a fisherman) shows up on reels 1 and 6 by default, and that pairing is the entire engine: a Collect lands together with any Cash Prize in view, the fisherman expands to fill his reel, and every cash value on the grid pays in one pickup. Wilds are restricted to reels 2-6, so reel 1 never substitutes. It only ever pays a symbol or collects.

What the trail does is permanent within the session. Each Cash Collect win unlocks the next upgrade on a five-rung ladder, and unlocked upgrades stay active across both the base game AND the Cash Spins bonus. The trail compounds rather than resets between bonuses, so a player who's already grinding upgrades in base play walks into the bonus with a stack of modifiers waiting. Three Bonus Scatters (the Big Catch logo) trigger 10 Cash Spins. Four scatters add 20x your bet on top. Five add 100x. Six add 500x, the rare full-reel hit.

Standard Cash Spins runs 10 spins with whatever Collect upgrades you've unlocked, and Collects landing during the round award extra spins plus Cash Collect multipliers on the pickups. The Big Splash Cash Spins is the higher-tier variant, and this one opens with a pick-fish round where you reveal which upgrades sit active for the duration. Either way, the same 4-tier cashpots run down the left rail (MEGA 2,500x, MAJOR 200x, MINOR 50x, MINI 20x), seeded by Collect pickups landing on certain cash positions.

The art is the familiar Big Catch dock setting: a glassy mountain lake under a pale daytime sky, pine forest along the far shore, a red-and-white fishing boat moored to the right of the reels, reeds and bubbles trailing up around the grid edges. The bass that pay out at the top of the table get cartoonier as they get bigger, the fisherman caricature heads the paytable, and 9 through A in coloured block letters fill the lows. No buy bonus in this build.