Fishing Cash Pots

Fishing Cash Pots Slot Review

Blurred seaweed sways in the blue behind the reels, purple coral clusters along the seabed below, and something dark sits half-buried beneath the grid. Fishing Cash Pots is a rarer thing than it looks: a ten-line game that spends its entire allowance of invention on one symbol and leaves everything else deliberately plain, and it’s better for that restraint than it would be with more frills bolted on.

Inspired built this one on a 5×4 grid with 10 win lines and a 95% RTP, and it sits in the same accessible corner of their catalogue as Bullion Bars Gold Collector, Cops ‘N’ Robbers Megaways and Reel King Megaways. There’s a quiet charm to a game this readable, and the Fish symbols give it one idea worth the trip to the bottom of the sea.

Reels, Win Lines and the Paytable

Wins are old-fashioned here. You match two, three, four or five symbols across adjacent reels starting from the leftmost one, and every line pays in that direction. Ten lines on a four-row grid leaves plenty of dead space between them, so a full screen of symbols still only ever produces a handful of possible results.

The rest of the arithmetic follows the pattern every ten-line player already knows:

• All games are played with 10 win lines
• Wins can occur across any or all of the win lines
• Only the highest award is paid per winning combination
• Wins on different played lines are added together
• All wins pay left to right across adjacent reels, except Bonus
• Fish symbols pay mixed, in any order, and are the one exception to the matching rule

That last line is worth dwelling on, because it’s the only place Fishing Cash Pots bends its own rules. Two Fish on adjacent reels and a Boot next to them don’t form a win for the Boot, but the Fish still count towards their own mixed pay regardless of what surrounds them. It’s a small thing, but it quietly changes which symbols you’re glad to see land.

The Paytable

The paytable is short and stacked in the traditional order, with a clear gap between the picture symbols and the royals. Every value below is the pay at a 1.00 stake:

• Fishing Cash Pots Logo – 2: 0.50, 3: 5.00, 4: 20.00, 5: 200.00
• Trophy – 3: 3.00, 4: 15.00, 5: 100.00
• Lifebuoy – 3: 3.00, 4: 15.00, 5: 100.00
• Crab – 3: 3.00, 4: 15.00, 5: 100.00
• Fishing Hook – 3: 2.00, 4: 10.00, 5: 50.00
• Boot – 3: 2.00, 4: 10.00, 5: 50.00
• J, Q, K and A – 3: 0.50, 4: 2.50, 5: 10.00
• Fish symbols – 3: 1.00, 4: 5.00, paying mixed in any order

The Fishing Cash Pots Logo is the only symbol that pays for a two-of-a-kind, which gives it a role beyond its 200.00 top award. It’s the symbol that keeps small drips of credit arriving between the bigger hits, and five of them at 1.00 stake is the game’s biggest single line pay at 200.00.

The middle tier tells you where the money sits. Trophy, Lifebuoy and Crab all pay identically, as do the Hook and the Boot one step below, so there are really only four prize levels across eight picture symbols. The royals pay so little that a full line of them barely covers the cost of the spin.

Symbols and Controls

There’s no wild symbol in Fishing Cash Pots, so every combination has to be made the honest way, from matching symbols alone. That keeps the base game easy to follow, though it also means there’s no shortcut symbol rescuing near-misses. The closest thing to a twist is the Fish symbol, which pays mixed in any order rather than needing to match, and it’s the symbol the bonus round is built around.

Controls are as plain as the rest of it. SPIN starts the game at the current bet value, and pressing BET once opens the bet window where the stake is adjusted. Anyone who has played a land-market slot in the last decade will find nothing to learn here.

The Fisherman Bonus

One feature carries this game. The Fisherman Bonus has a two-part trigger, and both halves have to arrive on the same spin:

• Six or more Fish symbols in view on reels 1 to 4
• Any BONUS symbol in view on reel 5

Neither half is worth anything on its own. Six Fish across the first four reels still just pay their mixed awards as a base game result, and the BONUS symbol on the fifth reel without the Fish does nothing at all. The trigger only counts when both conditions land together, which makes it a genuinely two-stage wait: the Fish can stack up spin after spin while the fisherman refuses to show.

The BONUS symbol is a fisherman icon, and it only appears on the fifth reel, where it works purely as a trigger. It doesn’t substitute for anything and it doesn’t pay on its own; its entire job is to unlock the round when enough Fish have gathered on the first four reels.

Inside the bonus, the Fish symbols change. When the first Fisherman symbol lands in view during the Fisherman Bonus, the Fish symbols turn gold, and that’s the round’s escalation moment. The reels that were paying mixed Fish wins in the base game become something worth more, and the round builds from there.

That’s the whole feature. There’s no second bonus round, no free spins variant and no pick-me layered on top, which will read as either refreshingly honest or threadbare depending on what you want from a modern slot. What the gold Fish can deliver is down to what lands on the reels, and the round is short enough that the trigger does most of the dramatic work.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 6.8/10

This is a game of waiting on the seabed. Sessions settle into a rhythm of small logo pays and watchful Fish-watching, and the reason somebody would pick it over the flashier neighbours is exactly that: nothing here happens fast, and the one thing that does happen is all the more noticeable for it.

The mixed Fish pay is the best idea in the game, because it means a spin is never quite dead while Fish keep arriving, which a ten-line format with this much dead space badly needs. The weak spot is the bonus itself: a two-stage wait guarding a round that escalates exactly once, so the build-up regularly promises more than the round delivers.

It suits players who like their slots small, legible and patient, in the old ten-line tradition, and it will leave anyone who wants layered mechanics or a number to chase cold. As a quiet afternoon on the seabed goes, though, the fish are worth the patience.

Fishing Cash Pots FAQs

• What is the RTP of Fishing Cash Pots?

  Fishing Cash Pots runs at an RTP of 95%, which sits slightly below the better-paying slots on the market.
• How many paylines does Fishing Cash Pots have?

  All games are played with 10 win lines. Wins can occur across any or all of them, and wins on different played lines are totalled together.
• How do you trigger the Fisherman Bonus?

  You need at least six Fish symbols in view across the first four reels, plus a BONUS symbol anywhere in view on reel five, and both conditions have to land on the same spin.
• What do the gold Fish symbols do in the Fisherman Bonus?

  During the Fisherman Bonus, Fish symbols turn gold when the first Fisherman symbol lands in view. That’s the round’s escalation step, and it’s what separates the bonus from ordinary base game play.
• Is there a wild symbol in Fishing Cash Pots?

  No, there’s no wild symbol. Every winning combination has to be made from matching symbols, except the Fish symbols, which pay mixed in any order.
• How do the Fish symbols pay in the base game?

  Fish symbols pay mixed, in any order, and they don’t need to match like the other symbols do. They pay 1.00 for three and 5.00 for four at a 1.00 stake.
• When is Fishing Cash Pots released?

  Fishing Cash Pots’ release date is 26 April 2021.
• Who makes Fishing Cash Pots?

  Fishing Cash Pots is made by Inspired, the studio behind titles like Bullion Bars Gold Collector and Reel King Megaways.