Fish Tales Jingle Bass Slot Review

We all knew a Christmas-themed fishing slot was coming. Booming Games has Fish Tales: Jingle Bass listed for release in December 2026, and it's exactly what it sounds like: their familiar fishing formula wrapped in holiday lights. It runs on the cash-collecting fisherman that Big Bass Bonanza made familiar, but it does add a pretty fun twist in the bonus round with a giant, sinking fish.

Getting into the free spins takes the usual 3 to 5 scatters, which gives you up to 20 spins. If you're impatient, you can buy the standard bonus for 75x your bet, or pay 100x for the "Festive Bonus," which guarantees the special Christmas Bass will show up. There's also a 1.5x side bet you can turn on to boost your chances of triggering the features naturally.

Once you're in the bonus, it's standard stuff at first, a fisherman wild collects the cash values attached to the fish symbols. Every wild you land also fills a meter above the reels; at four, eight and twelve wilds you get five extra spins each time.

But the main event here is the Christmas Bass. It's a massive symbol taking up three rows, worth anywhere from 50x to 1,000x your bet. It drops one cell after every spin it isn't collected, and every wild that lands lifts it one cell. To actually win that big cash prize, you need a wild to catch it while the whole fish is visible on the screen. It creates a really fun bit of tension: it works like a ticking clock, and you're just praying for wilds to keep the fish alive.

I went for the 100x Festive Bonus buy. A 50x Bass dropped on the very first spin, which was exciting, but then it just kept sinking for a few rounds. Finally, on the fifth spin, three wilds landed at once. It yanked the Bass back into full view, paid out the 50x, and instantly filled the first level of the wild meter to give me five more spins.

I ended up walking away with about 1.7x what I paid for the feature, mostly thanks to landing that Bass and a decent line win. It was a good result, but it made me realize something important: paying that extra 25x premium only guarantees the big Bass will appear on the screen. It doesn't guarantee you'll actually catch it. If you don't get your wilds at the right time, that giant prize is just going to sink out of sight, which can be frustrating.

This game is a bit of a lateral move for Booming Games. It has a 96.10% RTP and a 5,000x max win, the same two figures listed for Fish Tales Monster Bass and Fish Tales Halloween. If you're looking for bigger potential, other games in their lineup (like Fish Tales Double Catch) push the max win up to 10,000x, so this one sits on the lower end of their scale.

The obvious comparison is Pragmatic Play's Big Bass Bonanza. But instead of building a multiplier trail like Pragmatic does, this game gives you flat extra spins and focuses entirely on that sinking Bass mechanic. (And since Pragmatic already has Big Bass Christmas Bash with the exact same 5,000x cap, you've definitely got options for holiday fishing).

Jingle Bass is a fair, fun seasonal slot. It breaks no new ground and its figures match two of the studio's other fishing games, but the tug-of-war mechanic with the sinking Bass adds just enough suspense to make it worth a few spins if you're a fan of the genre.