Fishin' Bonanza Slot by Playtech

Before the free games run, you pick the reels they play on. Three, four or five goldfish scatters award 10, 15 or 20 spins, and then you choose a set: fish, crab, ray, octopus or turtle, each weighted toward its namesake creature, or a separate jackpot mode that swaps in reels built for the bigger fixed prizes. Whichever you take, the golden versions of the sea creatures turn up inside carrying boosted cash values.

All of it feeds the fisherman. In the base game the bearded old boy in the yellow raincoat is just a wild, standing in for the paying symbols. In the free games he turns collector: every turtle, octopus, ray, crab and fish on the reels wears a cash figure stamped right on it, and when the fisherman lands he scoops up the lot and pays their combined value. He can turn sticky too, hanging around for several spins and raking in whatever the reels drop while he stays.

That money-collect setup does the heavy lifting. The sea creatures don't pay fixed line multipliers, they pay whatever number is printed on them, so a screen full of high-value turtles counts for nothing until the fisherman is there to sweep it up. The card royals A through 10, each dangling a little fishing lure, fill the low end and pay next to nothing on their own.

Visually it's a bright, sunlit reef under the waves: blue sky and surf sit above the grid, coral and swaying seaweed below, a wooden Fishin' Bonanza plaque with a goldfish on either side hung across the top. And if the format looks familiar, it should. This is the Fishin' Frenzy collector template in a Playtech skin, right down to the raincoat fisherman. The selectable reel sets and the jackpot mode are what it adds on top. No buy button, so the scatters are the only way in.