Fish Tales Double Catch Slot by Booming Games

The title gives away the hook. 'Double Catch' refers to the two progress bars that run in parallel during Free Spins, each tracking a different collection - Wilds on one bar, Fish values on the other. Fill both and you walk out with more spins AND a bigger multiplier, which is how the 10,000x ceiling actually gets reached on this one.

Base play sits in a wooden dock-shack reel frame, lake scene stretching out behind, lily pads floating in the foreground. Symbols split into two groups. Royals (10 J Q K A) render as chunky cartoon letters in blue, yellow, red, green, purple. Fish premiums come in three tiers - regular painted trout and bass, gold variants, and a Monster Bass callback to the prequel - and each carries a cash value burned onto its tag: 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, or 100x total bet.

Three triggers drive the action. Barrel Boost fires at random in the base game and drops extra Scatters onto the reels, forcing Free Spins without waiting for a natural 3-of-a-kind hit. Big Net is the other base-game modifier - a net sweeps the screen and vacuums every visible Fish value in one collection, working like a pre-bonus version of the main cash-collect mechanic. Scatters that don't trigger Free Spins go into the Barrel above the reels, which slowly accumulates between spins.

Free Spins start at 10, 15, or 20 rounds depending on whether 3, 4, or 5 Scatters landed. Inside the bonus, every Wild that lands alongside one or more Fish symbols collects all Fish values on screen for their combined total. The progress bars complicate this. Wilds bar: 4 Wilds add +5 spins, 8 add another +5, 12 add +5 more, 16 add the final +5 (capped at +20 total). Fish bar: 8 Fish collected stamps a x2 multiplier on every Fish collected thereafter, 16 bumps it to x3, 24 to x5, 32 to x10. The multiplier stacks across the entire bonus, so a late-feature x10 session hitting a 100x Monster Bass tag pays a thousand times stake for that single collect.

Extra Bait is the side bet - a gold-star toggle on the left rail at 2.25x the current stake. Activating it raises the cost per spin and increases feature trigger frequency without changing payline pays (wins use the base bet, not the boosted one). Progress bars save per bet level, so switching stakes mid-session doesn't reset either bar. Hit rate to the main feature averages 135 spins with Extra Bait off, which is in the middle of Booming Games' usual range for medium-high volatility releases.