Big Bass Bonanza 1000 Slot (Pragmatic Play)

The Big Bass Bonanza 1000 slot is played on 5 reels and 3 rows with 10 fixed paylines. You need 3 or more matching symbols from left to right, on adjacent reels and starting from the leftmost reel, across any of the 10 paylines to form a winning combination. The only exception is the fishing float symbol where 2 or more are required.

In terms of bet options, you can play from as little as 10p per spin. With the maximum bet ranging up to £250 a spin, use the plus and minus buttons to change your bet. Non-UK players can speed up the spin speed with Turbo/Quick Spin mode or play up to 1,000 auto spins with the Autoplay function.

The Big Bass Bonanza 1000 RTP rate is 96.51% which is significant higher than the online slot average of around 96%. However, Pragmatic Play has created 95.51% and 94.51% RTP versions which may be used at your chosen slots site (a quick glance at the Paytable will determine which rate you’re playing with). The Big Bass Bonanza 1000 free demo above uses the highest RTP rate: this is also the case for the majority of free demo slot games at OLBG.

Classed at very high volatility (5/5), the hit frequency rate is 13.19%. This means a winning combination will land, on average, every 7.58 spins. Triggering the all-important Free Spins feature will happen every 1 in 116 spins.

The Big Bass Bonanza 1000 slot game offers 20,000 times bet max wins ensuring it offers the highest win potential of any Big Bass slot. The chances of winning the max win (known as the max win probability) are 1 in 6,366,645 spins whilst winning 1,000 times your total bet or higher will occur every 9,237 spins.

Fan of the fishing-themed Big Bass slots series? My dedicated guide provides details on all games, plenty of no free spins offers (with many being no wagering free spins), comparisons (ranked by max win potential, RTP rate and volatility) and much more.

With a fishing theme, the Big Bass Bonanza 1000 slot is the 25^th game in the Big Bass slots series. This time around, Pragmatic Play’s favourite fisherman returns for a supercharged adventure as the they’ve incorporated the 1000 series for huge max win potential.

Set underwater, the visuals are similar to other Big Bass games but there is a green tinge rather than a blue one (like in Big Bass Amazon Xtreme). With an upbeat and jolly soundtrack, it uses the same symbols as its predecessors.

Low-value symbols include colourful A, K, Q, J and 10 royals. The higher-value symbols are represented by money fish, tackle boxes, fishing rods, dragonflies and fishing floats. Best paying is the fishing float symbol which awards 200 times your total bet for 5 in combination.

Big Bass Bonanza 1000 also comes with a Fisherman Wild symbol which substitutes for all paying symbols but only appears during the Free Spins feature. To trigger the free spins, you need to Big Bass Scatter symbol which can appear on all 5 reels. Below, there is a list of all symbol payouts and functions:

• Q/J/10: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 1 or 5 x bet
• A/K: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 2.5 or 10 x bet
• Fish Money: 3, 4 or 5 = 1, 5 or 20 x bet
• Tackle Box/Fishing Rod: 3, 4 or 5 = 2, 10 or 50 x bet
• Dragonfly: 3, 4 or 5 = 3, 15 or 100 x bet
• Fishing Float: 2, 3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 5, 20 or 200 x bet
• Fisherman Wild: Substitutes for all symbols above & collects Fish Money symbols during free spins
• Big Bass Scatter: 3+ triggers Free Spins feature

Big Bass Bonanza 1000 Mobile

Big Bass Bonanza 1000 has been created using HTML5 technology. Adapting to any device you use, you can play this game on laptops, PCs, mobiles and tablets: this includes iOS and Android smartphones with Portrait Mode used to occupy more of your handheld screen. This is the case for all Pragmatic slots.

The Big Bass Bonanza 1000 slot comes with 5 bonus features. All about the Free Spins feature, Fisherman Wilds collect fish money symbols which can reach 1,000 x bet. Every 4^th Fisherman Wild retriggers the feature for extra free spins and a fish money multiplier up to 10x. You can expect some random extras to help you win more too.

Free Spins

When you land 3 or more Big Bass Scatter symbols anywhere during a base game spin, you’ll trigger the Free Spins feature. 3, 4 or 5 scatters will result in 10, 15 or 20 free spins, respectively. If you land 2 scatters, a 3^rd scatter can be randomly reel in to trigger the feature.

In the feature, the Fisherman Wild symbol comes into play. Appearing on all 5 reels and substituting for all paying symbols, Fisherman Wilds collect all fish money symbols on the reels. Fish money symbols will contain random bet multiplier values ranging from 2 to 1,000 times your total bet.

Every 4^th Fisherman Wild landing during the free spins will retrigger the feature. This will reward you with 10 extra free spins and the multiplier increasing to 2x, 3x and finally 10x:

The Free Spins feature also benefits from random extras. Randomly, when there is at least 1 Fisherman Wild on the reels, fish money symbols can appear in random positions which are then collected. There is also a Bazooka feature where fish money symbols are randomly added to the reels when Fisherman Wilds appear. Lastly, there is a Hook feature where both Fisherman Wilds and fish money symbols can be brought onto the reels.

Ante Bet

There is an optional Ante Bet feature which costs 1.5 times your total bet (i.e. a £1 spin will be £1.50 per spin). If you exercise this feature, you increase the chances of triggering the Free Spins feature as more Big Bass Scatter symbols appear on the reels. The RTP rate remains the same though.

Buy Free Spins

Non-UK players have 2 bonus buy options. With the RTP rate remaining at 96.51%, 95.51% or 94.51%, below is the price for each option:

• Free Spins feature: 100 x your total bet (3 Big Bass Scatters)
• Super Free Spins feature: 450 x your total bet (Higher chance of 1,000 x bet fish money symbols)

Big Bass Bonanza 1000 Slot

Rating: 4.0/5

Big Bass Bonanza 1000 is the 25th slot in the series and offers the same gameplay as its predecessors but with much bigger max win potential: up to 20,000 x bet.

Chris Taylor

The Big Bass Bonanza 1000 slot may be the 25^th game in the illustrious fishing series but the gameplay has remained the same throughout. The visuals are virtually identical to other games so you’ll be hard pressed to distinguish between them.

In terms of the gameplay, it’s all about the Free Spins feature where Fisherman Wilds collect fish money symbols (worth up to 1,000 times your total bet). Every 4^th Fisherman Wild will also retrigger the feature to give you more free spins and increase the fish money multiplier, up to 10x.

Now, Big Bass Bonanza 1000 offers much bigger max win potential than it’s predecessors, to the tune of 20,000 times your total bet. If you compare to Big Bass Bonanza and Big Bass Splash, it’s significantly more. Below, I’ve added a table comparing the RTP rate, max win potential, hit frequency rate and max win probability for Big Bass Bonanza 1000 and the 2 most popular Big Bass slots:

The chances of winning 20,000 times your total bet is a lot lower in the 1000 version but the max win potential is 9.52 times higher than in Big Bass Bonanza and 4 times higher than in Big Bass Splash.

That said, Big Bass Bonanza 1000 offers the highest win potential of any Big Bass slots. Well, Big Bass Hold & Spinner Megaways also comes with 20,000 x bet max wins with the max win probability at 1 in 1,496,522 spins.

To summarise, the Big Bass Bonanza 1000 slot offers big win potential with a high RTP rate but the gameplay is the same as other games in the series. I would have hoped that Pragmatic Play would have added another bonus feature or twist to keep things fresh and exciting. I’m not too sure they will be too many no wager free spins offers on this game though due to the high max win potential.

If you want to read and compare all Big Bass slots, check out my dedicated guide:

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Alternatively, you can reel in some big wins with the best fishing slots which include Nolimit City’s Ugliest Catch and Blueprint Gaming’s Fishin’ Frenzy:

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Finally, Big Bass Bonanza 1000 forms part of Pragmatic’s 1000 slots series. For full details, check out my guide: 

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The Big Bass Bonanza 1000 slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who has written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades. It was then verified/checked by Jenny Mason, our slot reviewer who has 17+ years working in online gambling, for top UK brands. 

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