Fishin’ Frenzy here is the original 10-line slot that started the series, built by Reel Time Gaming for UK pubs and arcades and online since 2014. Its free spins are the draw: a Fisherman wild reels in the cash value tagged on every fish in view, and a gamble is available on wins. It returns 96.12%, with a most cited 5,000x top win. The free demo below is a similar fishing pokie, with no download.
The Fishin’ Frenzy slot runs on five reels and three rows with 10 fixed lines that pay left to right. Stakes run from 10 cents to $500 a spin in most listings, although the spec box on Blueprint’s own page starts at twice that minimum, and most UK casinos cap the top stake far lower. The default return to player is 96.12%, but Blueprint also supplies builds at 94%, 93%, 92% and 90%, so the figure depends on which build a casino runs. Blueprint gives no volatility rating, and the databases split three ways: low to medium, medium and high. Hit frequency is not published. The most cited top win is 5,000 times the total bet, a screen full of Fisherman wilds across all 10 lines. One database lists a cap of 50,000x or 250,000 in cash, whichever comes first, which reads as a ceiling, not a paytable result.
Fishin' Frenzy Pokies Characteristics
Wins need three or more matching symbols on one of the 10 lines, starting from the leftmost reel, and the seagull and the Fisherman also pay for two. The fishing boat is the scatter: three or more anywhere start the free spins. The blue fish do two jobs. They pay as a line symbol, and in the free spins the cash value on each fish’s tag can be collected. The Fisherman wild comes into play in the free spins, where he substitutes for every paying symbol and collects the fish; Blueprint describes him only in the free games.
That leaves the base game as a plain line game. There is no bonus buy and no jackpot on the original, and the only extra Blueprint lists is a card gamble after a win.
Wins below are multiples of the total bet, which is 10 line bets, for three, four and five of a kind, with the two-of-a-kind pay listed first for the Fisherman and the seagull.
No cash pay is published for the boat scatter. Five Fishermen on a line pay 500x the total bet, so a screen full of them makes the 5,000x usually quoted as the top win, and the best line without the wild is five seagulls at 200x. Two figures are less certain: databases list five royals at 5x or 10x, and the fish’s line pays come from one source. That line pay is separate from the cash on the fish’s tag.
Three, four or five fishing boats anywhere on the reels award 10, 15 or 20 free spins, played at the triggering bet. That is the whole round: the spins cannot be retriggered or extended, and no multiplier is documented for the original.
Each fish shows a cash value on a tag, and every Fisherman in view collects the value of every fish in view, on top of any line wins. With more than one Fisherman, each collects the full set again, so three Fishermen and two fish pay each fish three times. One database puts the top tag at 50x the bet, and we found no full list of values. Fish without a Fisherman collect nothing extra, so the round lives on the two landing together.
Big Bass Bonanza, released by Reel Kingdom through Pragmatic Play in December 2020 and reviewed on our site, uses a similar collect mechanic; Fishin’ Frenzy had it online six years earlier.
Blueprint lists a Win Gamble: after a win you can guess red or black on a card to try to double it. One review describes it as well, two databases leave it out, and we could not confirm which markets or casinos show it, so do not count on it.
At the default 96.12% the game keeps just under 4 cents of every dollar staked over the long run; the 90% build keeps 10 cents, more than two and a half times as much. Volatility ratings run from low-medium to high, and the structure shows why they differ: base-game wins are mostly small line pays, with three royals returning half the stake, while the larger results sit in a short free spins round that depends on the Fisherman and the fish landing together. There is no trick to winning on Fishin’ Frenzy, but one choice changes the long-run return: playing where the 96.12% build runs.
At 50 cents a spin, $50 buys 100 spins. Three royals on a line pay 25 cents, five seagulls $100, five Fishermen $250 and the 5,000x screen $2,500. At $2 a spin the same $50 lasts 25 spins, and no source publishes how often the boats land.
Fishin’ Frenzy Jackpot King (2020) is the original game linked to Blueprint’s progressive: landing the Jackpot King crown gives a shot at the jackpot, and a Wheel King decides the prize from three pots, the uncapped Jackpot King and the Royal and Regal pots, which must be won by set amounts. The pots are local to a casino or group, and Blueprint lists the return at 93.32% or 95.47% plus the jackpot contribution. Fishin’ Frenzy Megaways (April 2019) has six reels and up to 15,625 ways, returns 96.1% and lets casinos switch on a bonus buy.
The family now runs past 20 titles, and the sequels all come from Blueprint, the British studio owned outright by Merkur Group (formerly Gauselmann Group) since 2012. In The Big Catch (2021) Fisherman wilds collected in a net upgrade the fish values, and it has Megaways and Jackpot King editions, with The Big Catch 2 and 3 following in 2025. Even Bigger Catch (2023) adds a Golden Fisherman wild with multipliers up to 10x, The Big Splash (2023) opens the bonus with a fish pick that adds upgrades, Fishin’ Frenzy Christmas is its festive edition, and Reel Time Fortune Play (2022) adds a higher-stake Fortune Play mode.
The setting is a sea-fishing trip that Blueprint sells as a classic of the deep blue sea. The Fisherman is the star, joined by a seagull, a fishing rod, a life buoy, a tackle box, blue fish with cash tags, a fishing-boat scatter and royals from 10 to A. It is one of the longest-running UK games to move from retail to online, and Blueprint says casinos still use the original in their marketing. The Blueprint build runs in HTML5 on desktop, tablet and mobile in 15 languages.
We found no Australian floor history for Fishin’ Frenzy: the sources tie its retail life to UK arcades, bookmaker shops and pubs, and nothing places it in an Australian club, pub or casino. Blueprint’s page lists the markets it supplies the original to, from the UK and Malta to Ontario, Spain and Buenos Aires, and Australia is not among them. Whether an offshore casino that accepts Australians offers it for real money varies from lobby to lobby, so the lobby search is the way to check; try Fishing Frenzy too, the spelling in Blueprint’s own game code. Blueprint publishes no playable free demo of its own, only screenshots.
Fishin’ Frenzy suits players who want a plain 10-line game with one clear feature and accept that the feature is short: 10 to 20 spins, no retriggers, no documented multiplier, just the Fisherman and the fish. Fans of Big Bass Bonanza will recognise the collect idea in its earlier form. It does not suit anyone after a bonus buy, a long bonus round or a top win above the usually quoted 5,000x; several sequels are listed at 50,000x. The one thing to check is the RTP: at 96.12% it is a fair game, and the same reels at 90% are an expensive one.
96.12% in the default build. Blueprint also supplies versions at 94%, 93%, 92% and 90%, and the game’s help screen shows which one a casino runs.
Land three, four or five fishing-boat scatters anywhere for 10, 15 or 20 free spins. The round cannot be retriggered.
5,000 times the total bet is the most cited figure: Fishermen on all 10 lines at 500x each. One database lists a 50,000x cap instead, and Blueprint publishes no figure.
In the free spins every Fisherman in view collects the cash value of every fish in view. With two or more Fishermen, each one collects all the fish again.
We found no sign of it in Australian venues, and Blueprint does not list Australia among the markets it supplies. Offshore casinos that accept Australians vary, so search the lobby before signing up.
No. The 2019 Megaways edition has six reels, up to 15,625 ways, a 96.1% return and an optional bonus buy; the original has five reels, 10 lines and no buy.
