Two fishermen share a boat above the reels here, and honestly they do most of the heavy lifting. Reel Bass: Jackpot Catch is a fresh OctoPlay release from July 2026, a cheerful money-collect fishing slot set at a sunset harbour with a striped lighthouse and a trawler bobbing in the surf. The grid is a compact 5×3 with 10 paylines, and the base game itself is fairly plain: chunky fishing gear, card royals, and a Wild that fills in for the regular symbols only. It won't touch the special stuff.
The special stuff is where it earns its name. Fish Coins drop with cash values from 1x to 10x, and up to 12 of them can land on a single spin. But they pay nothing on their own. You need a Coin Collector, and here's the catch, it only appears on the middle reel. Land one and it scoops up every Fish Coin on screen. The same rule governs the jackpots. Jackpot Fish carry four fixed prizes, Mini 15x, Minor 30x, Major 100x and Grand 500x, but they stay locked until a Jackpot Collector shows up, again on that centre reel.
Each collector route opens its own Hold & Win respin round. Both start with 3 respins, and the counter resets to 3 whenever a new coin or fish lands. One version accumulates coin values, the other chases jackpots. Impatient? There's a Buy Hold & Win at 60x, a separate Buy Jackpot Hold & Win, plus two ante Chance boosters giving 5x or 10x more chance to trigger. RTP sits at 95.71% and volatility runs medium-high.
Now the trade-off. That 2,340x ceiling feels low for a jackpot-fishing slot in 2026, where 5,000x is common. And because every payout hinges on one symbol appearing on one specific reel, dry stretches can drag. Is it fun? Sure. Just don't expect a life-changing catch.