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catch of the day theme, stakes, pays & symbols

I remember the first time I played a Fishin’ Frenzy game – I was playing some other game at an online casino when a mate mentioned that he had played the fishing-themed slot at the local bookmaker's shop earlier that day and recommended that I give it a try. The game confused me – it had a feature which only activated when a bell sounded, but that sound was not tied to the appearance of any particular symbol or other event taking place in the game. I’m unsure today if that was a weird version of Fishin’ Frenzy or if I just haven’t played the original in such a long time that I can’t recall the exact details, but I definitely was not overly impressed, and to this day, haven’t quite figured out the reason for the popularity of these games. Catch of the Day isn’t a particularly great-looking game, making Inspired’s decision to create a clone a dubious one at best - why would anybody choose to play this game over the original?

Again, perhaps I am worrying about the details a little too much – the trophy symbol has a payout of 200x the total bet for a complete payline of five of a kind, which is a decent base game hit for any online slot. The life preserver's return of 100x for all five symbols is once again reasonable, and the 50x payout for the boot and anchor complete a respectable set of high-paying symbols. Any combination of five fish symbols will pay 20x the total bet – you can ignore the cash values shown during the base game – and that just leaves us with the five royal symbols, all of which share equal returns of 10x the total bet.

As for the betting range, that’s been tweaked significantly compared to Inspired’s other fishing-themed game – this time, we get minimum/maximum permitted wagers of €0.10 and €30.00 per spin, respectively, which should be enough to satisfy most players. 

base game & modifiers

The basic gameplay of Catch of the Day feels as if it may have been lifted directly from a game published two decades ago – that’s not to say that simple, straightforward slots are necessarily a bad thing, but there certainly isn’t much to it. You get five reels of three rows each, ten fixed paylines, and a minimum of three matching symbols required to score yourself a win, except for the trophy, which has a token payout for two symbols as well.

catch of the day slot bonus features

A curious thing about many of these fishing-themed slots is that they all include cash prizes that can only be won during their bonus rounds. That would be fine, except that the cash prizes are still displayed during the base game too – I can’t wrap my head around the reasoning behind this. Nevertheless, hitting three scatter symbols will award you 10 free spins, increasing to 15 or 20 for four or five scatter symbols, respectively.

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