Fish Tales Jingle Bass

Fish Tales Jingle Bass Slot Review

A log cabin sits to the right of the reels, wreath on the gable, coloured fairy lights along the eaves, and a fishing net slung across the top of a red timber frame dusted with snow. Fish Tales Jingle Bass hangs its grid on a frozen jetty, wicker creel waiting for the catch, and the game it’s strung around is a chase: one stacked fish sinking slowly down the reels while you try to hook it before it’s gone. For a Christmas cash collector, that’s an unusually tense way to spend December.

Booming Games have built it on a 5×3 grid with 20 fixed paylines, four modifiers that can fire on any base game spin, and a biggest prize on the reels of 1,000x in Cash symbols. Fans of Holly Jolly Bonanza 10,000 or Bang Bang Reloaded will know the studio’s fondness for stacking systems on top of each other.

Base Game & Features

Wins form the traditional way: identical symbols landing consecutively from left to right across one of the 20 paylines. The line count is fixed, so there’s no adjusting it, and only the highest combination on each line pays. Multiple wins on a single spin simply add together and land in the win field.

The paytable is weighted towards the top. These are multiples of the total bet:

• Red Boat: 0.5x for two, 2.5x for three, 10x for four, 100x for five
• Orange Gift Chest: 1.5x for three, 7.5x for four, 50x for five
• Bell/Wreath and Blue Cracker/Bell: 1x for three, 5x for four, 25x for five
• Red Fish/Plate: 0.5x for three, 2.5x for four, 10x for five
• A, K, Q, J and 10: 0.25x for three, 1.25x for four, 5x for five

Below the Boat, the drop-off is steep. The royals need a full line of five just to return five times the bet, so the paying side of the game is really there to keep the balance ticking over while the Cash symbols do the heavy lifting.

The Wild substitutes for every paying symbol except the Bonus and Cash symbols, and it doubles as the collector: any Wild landing alongside a Cash symbol gathers the values on screen. That collection role is the engine the whole game runs on.

Fish Collect

Cash symbols come in normal, gold and Christmas Bass varieties, and their values form a long ladder with sixteen rungs. They do nothing on their own. It’s the Wild that unlocks them, sweeping the values off the screen whenever the two land together.

Which fish you catch matters far more than how many. The gap between a dud collection and a great one is enormous, and the full run of possible values is listed below.

• 0.25x
• 0.5x, 0.75x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x
• 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x
• 250x, 500x, 1,000x

Big Net and Value Add

Two base game modifiers can arrive on any spin. The Big Net hauls in every Cash symbol on screen, no Wild required. Value Add works the other way round, dropping extra Cash symbols onto spins where a Wild has already landed, fattening the catch before the collection happens.

Barrel Boost

Every Bonus symbol landing in the base game is dropped into a Collection Pot above the reels. The pot can trigger on any spin, adding extra Bonus symbols to award Free Spins. Worth knowing: the pot filling up doesn’t change the odds of that trigger firing. It’s a visual, not a meter you’re working down.

A BOOST+ purchase option sits in the interface at three times the bet, though exactly what it buys isn’t spelled out.

Fish Tales Jingle Bass Free Spins & Bonus Features

Landing three, four or five Bonus scatters starts 10, 15 or 20 Free Spins. Both Fish Collect and the Christmas Bass are active throughout the round, and the Wild keeps its collecting duties. The scatters also keep landing during the round, feeding the progress bar described below.

Christmas Bass

The star of the round is a stacked Cash symbol three positions high, holding values of 50x, 100x, 250x, 500x or 1,000x the total bet. It only counts when fully visible, and only the Wild can collect it. The movement is what makes it interesting: it nudges down one position after every spin it goes uncollected, and nudges back up one position whenever a Bonus symbol lands.

The round becomes a slow chase between the stack sinking out of reach and the scatters hauling it back. Left alone, a fully landed stack needs collection within two spins before the bottom rows start disappearing off the grid.

One quirk to note: if two or more Bonus symbols land together with a Wild, the Christmas Bass value is collected only once. The stack pays once per collection, regardless of how many scatters accompanied it.

Extra Spins

Bonus symbols collected during the round feed a progress bar rather than retriggering directly:

• 4 collected: +5 extra spins
• 8 collected: +5 extra spins
• 12 collected: +5 extra spins

That’s up to 15 additional spins on top of the initial award, with every scatter also nudging the Christmas Bass upward. The two systems feed each other, which is the sharpest piece of design in the game.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Most of a session here is spent watching one fish. The Christmas Bass sinking a row at a time while scatters haul it back is a proper piece of design, and it’s the reason to pick this over the many collect games that just wait for a Wild. The free spins round has genuine shape to it, and the 1,000x top Cash value means one clean catch can end the session ahead.

The weakness is everything around that chase. Four base game modifiers and a collection pot that doesn’t move the odds is clutter for a game whose real decision is simply whether the Wild shows up, and the paytable beneath the Boat is thin enough that base wins rarely feel like events.

If you like a collect game with something to lose track of, this is a good December pick, and the frozen-lake setting is charming enough to hold up through a long session. Players who want straightforward spinning or a printed ceiling to aim at will find it fussy. For everyone else, there’s a very decent fish under all that tinsel.

Fish Tales Jingle Bass FAQs

• How do you trigger Free Spins in Fish Tales Jingle Bass?

  Three, four or five Bonus scatter symbols award 10, 15 or 20 Free Spins. During the round, Bonus symbols collected on a progress bar award five extra spins at four, eight and twelve collected, and a stacked Christmas Bass cash symbol can be chased and collected by the Wild.
• What does the Christmas Bass symbol do?

  It’s a cash symbol stacked three positions high that only appears during Free Spins, holding values of 50x up to 1,000x the total bet. It only counts when fully visible, it nudges down one position after every spin it isn’t collected, and it nudges back up whenever a Bonus symbol lands. Only the Wild can collect it.
• What is the Fish Collect feature in Fish Tales Jingle Bass?

  Cash symbols land with values from 0.25x up to 1,000x the total bet, in normal, gold or Christmas Bass varieties. Each Wild that lands together with a Cash symbol collects the values on screen.
• What is the biggest win available in Fish Tales Jingle Bass?

  The largest prize on the reels is the 1,000x total bet Cash value, which sits at the top of the Fish Collect ladder and can also appear on the Christmas Bass stack during Free Spins.
• Can you buy the bonus on Fish Tales Jingle Bass?

  Yes, there’s a buy option in the interface. A BOOST+ purchase is priced at three times the bet, though what it does isn’t explained.
• How many paylines does Fish Tales Jingle Bass have?

  Fish Tales Jingle Bass has 20 paylines, and the number is fixed, so you can’t reduce or increase the active lines.
• When is Fish Tales Jingle Bass released?

  Fish Tales Jingle Bass’s release date is 3 December 2026.
• Who makes Fish Tales Jingle Bass?

  Fish Tales Jingle Bass is made by Booming Games.