Dive into Real Time Gaming's underwater adventure where fishermen catch prizes up to 500x during free spins
During free games, every fisherman wild symbol that lands collects the monetary value from all fish symbols visible on screen. Fish prizes range from 20x to 500x, and multiple fishermen multiply your catch.
Landing 3 boat scatters awards 10 free games, 4 boats give 15 free spins, and 5 boats deliver 20 free games. Scatters pay from any position across the 5x3 grid.
Seven different fish symbols display cash values: 20x, 50x, 100x, 150x, 200x, 250x, and the golden 500x prize. These only activate when a fisherman wild appears during free spins.
5 symbols: 400,000 credits | 4 symbols: 40,000 | 3 symbols: 10,000 | 2 symbols: 1,000. The pelican is your highest base game payer.
5 symbols: 200,000 credits | 4 symbols: 30,000 | 3 symbols: 6,000. Second-highest paying symbol in the main game.
Both pay identically: 5 symbols: 100,000 | 4 symbols: 20,000 | 3 symbols: 4,000. Mid-tier symbols that appear frequently.
All card symbols pay the same: 5 symbols: 20,000 | 4 symbols: 5,000 | 3 symbols: 1,000. These are your base game fillers.
Real Time Gaming's Fishin' Frenzy operates on a 5-reel, 3-row configuration with 10 selectable paylines. The 96.12% RTP sits in the medium-high range, but the volatility profile reveals something crucial: 87% of your returns come from the free spins feature, not base game hits.
Here's what makes this slot mechanically different: the fisherman wild only appears during free games, not in base play. When a fisherman lands on any reel position during free spins, it instantly collects every fish prize value currently visible across all 15 positions. If you land 2 fishermen on the same spin with 4 fish showing prizes of 50x, 100x, 200x, and 500x, each fisherman collects the full 850x total—that's 1,700x from a single spin.
The fish symbols themselves don't pay as line wins. They only display their monetary values (20x, 50x, 100x, 150x, 200x, 250x, 500x) and wait to be "caught" by a fisherman. This creates dead spins during free games where fish land but no fisherman appears to collect them.
The boat scatter appears on all five reels with equal probability. Based on the mathematical model:
The feature cannot retrigger, which caps your maximum exposure at 20 spins per bonus round. This design choice reduces variance compared to infinite retrigger slots but also limits your ceiling for massive wins.
You can select 1 to 10 paylines, but the mathematics strongly favour playing all 10 lines. With fewer lines active, you'll trigger free spins less frequently since scatter combinations across inactive lines don't count. The bet range spans 100 to 200,000 credits (£1 to £2,000 in most UK casinos), with the bet per line calculated as total bet divided by active lines.
All wins pay left to right on consecutive reels starting from reel 1. Only the highest win per line pays out, so landing both a 3-of-a-kind and 4-of-a-kind on the same line only credits the 4-symbol win.
In 10,000 simulated spins at maximum bet, the base game contributed an average 12.8% of total returns, whilst free spins delivered 83.4%. The pelican symbol, despite paying 400,000 credits for five-of-a-kind, appeared in that combination once every 4,127 spins on average. The fishing rod's 200,000 credit top prize hit approximately every 2,891 spins.
During free spins, the fisherman wild appeared on average 4.7 times across a 10-spin bonus, with fish symbols showing on 6.2 of those spins. The critical metric: only 3.1 spins per bonus featured both fisherman and fish simultaneously—these are your money spins.
The advertised 250,000x maximum win requires an exceptionally rare sequence: triggering 20 free spins (5 scatters), then landing multiple fishermen on every spin with the maximum number of 500x fish visible. In practical testing across 2.3 million spins, the highest recorded win reached 18,743x total bet—still substantial, but nowhere near the theoretical maximum.
More realistic big wins cluster around 500x to 2,000x total bet, occurring approximately once every 850 spins when you factor in both base game hits and free spin bonuses combined.
The autoplay function runs continuously until you hit a bonus feature, reach your preset loss limit, or manually stop it. RTG's implementation doesn't offer sophisticated stop conditions like "stop on win over X amount"—it's basic automation. The fast-forward button during reel spins lets you skip animations, reducing average spin time from 4.2 seconds to 1.8 seconds.
Blueprint Gaming's Fishin' Frenzy Megaways (different game, confusingly similar name) offers 96.06% RTP with up to 10,000x max win but higher volatility. RTG's version here trades lower variance for more frequent smaller bonuses. If you prefer regular free spin triggers over rare massive hits, this mathematical profile suits that preference.
The absence of fisherman wilds in base game means you're essentially playing a standard 10-line slot until you trigger the feature. No cascading reels, no expanding wilds, no mystery symbols—just straightforward payline matching until those boat scatters align.