Big Bass Secrets of the Golden Lake Review 09 April 2024

On April 8, 2024, Pragmatic Play launched a new addition to the Big Bass Bonanza family, Big Bass Secrets of the Golden Lake.

If you are familiar with and enjoyed the previous slots, you need to read this review to learn about the new slot.

General overview

The slot has 5 reels and 3 rows offering players 10 paylines for winning combinations. The default RTP is 96.07% though you may find others including 95.07% and 94.07%.

It also offers a less generous max win of 5000x compared to other popular slots.

You can bet a minimum of €0.20 and a maximum of €250. 

You also get the chance to land low and high symbols. The lows are 10, J, Q, K and A while the highs are a dragonfly, tackle box, a reel and a float.

Land 5 matching lows for a reward multiplier of 5x to 10x and 5 matching highs for 20x to 200x.

Features

Money symbol

When you land the fish money symbol, you can earn rewards of multipliers from 2x to 5000x your bet. Line wins can also reward you up to 20 times the bet.

If you are hoping for random money values, you will only find them in the Free Spins round.

Golden Lake free spins

This feature makes all regular pay symbols leave the grid leaving fishermen, fish money and blank symbols.

Whenever you spin and land a winning combination, money symbols are paid.

You can progress to the next round by landing fisherman symbols.

Whenever you land a fourth fisherman, you retrigger the feature unlocking 10 Free Spins and multipliers for money symbols.

The multipliers are 2x, 3x or 10x for levels 2,3 and 4.

Once you reach the fourth level, you cannot retrigger.

Free spins 

Landing 3,4 or 5 scatters rewards you with 10, 15 or 20 Free Spins respectively.

If you land 2 scatters in the base game, a third one could randomly drop onto the grid through a respin or initial spin.

Before you start, you have to choose a card between a regular Free Spin or Golden Lake Free Spin feature. Once a fisherman symbol lands, you are rewarded by collecting all values from money symbols on the grid.

You can retrigger the feature whenever you land a fourth fisherman. This earns you rewards multiplier rewards of 2x,3x or 10x for the second, third and fourth levels.

Retriggers are not possible after the fourth level.

Free spins feature

Whenever there are fisherman symbols but no money symbols in a free spins round, money symbols may appear at random at the end of the spin.

If there are money symbols but no fisherman symbols, a hook may appear to pull a fisherman onto the grid.

Lastly, if the fisherman symbol is on the grid without money symbols, the other symbols may transform into something else.

Buy free spins

Access the Free Spins as soon as possible by wagering 100x the bet for either the Free Spins or Golden Lake Free Spins. Alternatively, you can wager 270x to access Golden Lake Free Spins.

Verdict

By playing, you get to enjoy the usual Free Spins plus the Golden Lake Free Spins.

If you want to skip right to the thrill of the Free Spin rounds, you can do that with the Buy Free Spins feature.