Fishin' Frenzy Online: Cast Off Into RTG's Sunlit Reel Adventure
A 5-reel, 3-row underwater slot from Real Time Gaming where a golden-hearted fisherman only turns up once the boat scatter has sent you into free games, then hauls in every fish tag left on the screen.
How a session unfolds, step by step
Set your lines and spin
Choose between 1 and 10 win lines across the 5x3 grid before every base-game spin, with stakes running from 100 up to 200,000 (or currency equivalent) once your line count and bet per line are set.
Watch for the scatter boats
Landing 3, 4 or 5 BOAT scatter symbols anywhere on the reels triggers 10, 15 or 20 free games in return, whatever your chosen line count was in the base game.
Free games lock in 10 lines
Once the feature begins, all 10 paylines are active regardless of what you had selected, and your stake for the round is not taken again for every free spin you use.
The fisherman wild shows up
The MAN symbol, a fisherman, appears only inside free games. It substitutes for every symbol except the BOAT scatter and can complete line wins on its own.
He nets every fish tag on screen
Each time a fisherman lands during a free spin, he collects the value from every fish symbol visible at that moment, not just the ones on his own reel.
No retrigger, one clean run
Free games cannot be retriggered, so the round plays out to its full 10, 15 or 20 spins and then hands back to the base game with winnings added to your balance, capped at 250,000, or x250,000 of your total bet.
What the reel symbols are worth
Every win line pays only its highest combination, counted left to right from the far-left reel on adjacent reels, and separate winning lines are added together for the final result.
| Symbol | 5 of a kind | 4 of a kind | 3 of a kind | 2 of a kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pelican | 400,000 | 40,000 | 10,000 | 1,000 |
| Fishing rod | 200,000 | 30,000 | 6,000 | — |
| Life preserver | 100,000 | 20,000 | 4,000 | — |
| Tackle box | 100,000 | 20,000 | 4,000 | — |
| Card royals (A K Q J 10) | 20,000 | 5,000 | 1,000 | — |
PelicanTop-paying standard symbol
Fishing rodSecond highest paying symbol
Life preserverMid-tier paying symbol
Tackle boxMid-tier paying symbol
Card royalsLower-tier paying symbols
Boat scatterTriggers free games
Fisherman wildFree games only
Money fishCollected by the fishermanFish values and fisherman payouts during free games
While the free games run, fish symbols scattered across the grid carry one of the following cash tags:
On top of that, if more than one fisherman lands within the same free spin, the count itself is rewarded:
Fishin' Frenzy, RTG's fisherman-themed free spins slot
Fishin' Frenzy runs on a straightforward 5-reel, 3-row layout with 1 to 10 selectable paylines, giving players control over how wide a spread of win lines they're paying for on any given spin. Real Time Gaming has built the whole thing around a single mechanic worth understanding properly: the fisherman wild does nothing at all in the base game. He is a bonus round exclusive, appearing only once the boat scatter has paid out its free spins, and that restriction is what gives the feature its shape.
Three, four or five boat scatters land you 10, 15 or 20 free games, and from that point the reels always run on the full 10 paylines no matter what you had set beforehand, with no extra stake taken for any of the spins you've been given. The money symbols, fish tagged with values from 20 up to 500, sit passively on the grid until a fisherman appears in view. When he does, he sweeps up the value of every fish showing on the screen at that moment, not just the ones near him, which means a screen that's already full of high fish tags can turn a single fisherman landing into the spin that defines the whole round. Multiple fishermen in one spin add their own scatter-style payout on top, from 10 for a pair up to 5,000 for all five.
There is no retrigger built into the bonus round, so however the reels behave across your 10, 15 or 20 free games, that's the full run, after which winnings are added to the balance and play returns to the base game. Line wins outside the feature follow standard rules: symbols pay left to right from the leftmost reel on consecutive reels, only the highest combination on each line counts, and the results across separate winning lines are simply added together. Stakes range from 100 to 200,000 (or currency equivalent), and the game's ceiling sits at 250,000, equal to x250,000 of the total bet placed. The theoretical return to player is fixed at 96.12%, calculated over the long term rather than any single session.