Go Fishing

Go Fishing Slot Review

A bearded angler in an orange plaid shirt stands in his little boat, rod in one fist, a hazy blue-green headland behind him and the water glowing aquamarine beneath the reel frame. Go Fishing looks like the laziest afternoon on the calendar, and that’s the most misleading thing about it: this is one of the greediest, most involved cluster games CQ9 Gaming has put its name to.

Play runs on a 6×5 grid where eight or more matching symbols pay out wherever they land, and beneath the cheerful artwork sit cascade chains, sticky multiplier symbols worth up to 500x and a free spins round that edits itself before it starts. CQ9’s range on site includes 888 Cai Shen and Fa Cai Shen 2, alongside titles like Night City, and this is one of the more mechanically loaded entries. The fishing here rewards less patience than nerve.

Base Game & Features

Wins don’t use paylines. Any eight or more of the same symbol anywhere on the grid pays, with bigger clusters climbing through pay bands at ten-plus and twelve-plus symbols. There’s no wild in this game at all; the special work is done by the boat scatter and the coloured multiplier orbs.

The symbol set splits between sea life and card suits. Fish make up the top of the table, suits and a star fill out the cheaper end, and the gap between them is wide enough that the fish are what every cascade is chasing.

Symbols and Pays

Symbol values are multiples of the total bet, stepping up across three cluster bands:

• Puffer or anglerfish: 13.3333x for 8-9 symbols, 33.3333x for 10-11, 66.6667x for 12-30
• Large pink fish: 3.3333x for 8-9, 13.3333x for 10-11, 33.3333x for 12-30
• Green dolphinfish: 2.6667x for 8-9, 6.6667x for 10-11, 20x for 12-30
• Blue marlin: 2x for 8-9, 3.3333x for 10-11, 16x for 12-30
• Star: 1.3333x for 8-9, 2x for 10-11, 12.6667x for 12-30
• Spade: 1x for 8-9, 1.6x for 10-11, 10x for 12-30
• Heart: 0.6667x for 8-9, 1.3333x for 10-11, 6.6667x for 12-30
• Club: 0.5333x for 8-9, 1.2x for 10-11, 5.3333x for 12-30
• Diamond: 0.4x for 8-9, 1x for 10-11, 3.3333x for 12-30
• Small yellow anglerfish: 0.3333x for 8-9, 0.8x for 10-11, 2.6667x for 12-30
• Small pink fish: 0.2x for 8-9, 0.6x for 10-11, 2x for 12-30

The boat scatter sits outside that table. Four of them anywhere pay 3x the total bet, five pay 5x, and six pay 100x, on top of whatever the free games bring. Six scatters is the single biggest instant prize the game pays.

The Eliminating Feature

Eight or more matching symbols, scatters and multiplier orbs aside, set off the eliminating feature. Winning symbols clear away and new ones drop in, and the chain keeps running until a drop produces no new winning combination. A single spin can run through several waves of eliminations, each one re-reading the grid for fresh clusters.

Multiplier Symbols

Coloured orbs land on the reels carrying random multiplier values that top out at 500x. They stay put until a spin finishes with no winning combination, and once the eliminating feature stops, any orbs still sitting on the grid multiply the round’s total winnings.

That makes an orb’s worth depend entirely on what happens around it. A big value that lands with no cascade to feed it disappears with the spin, while a modest orb caught in a long chain of eliminations is still standing when the total gets counted.

Re-cascade

After any spin, or any re-cascade, you can pay to run another. Two versions are offered: one removes one or two types of fish, suit, star or diamond symbols along with any spent multiplier orbs, while the other trims only the suits, stars and diamonds. Clearing low symbols thins the grid so the bigger fish can cluster.

Each re-cascade carries an extra charge shown beneath the reels, and the winning rules match the base game. The option ends if you change your stake or pass into or out of the free spins round.

Go Fishing Free Spins & Bonus Features

Free Games

Four, five or six boat scatters anywhere on the reels award 15 free spins, plus an immediate win of 3x, 5x or 100x the total bet respectively. The stake used for the triggering spin carries through the whole round.

Before the free games begin, three to five of the fifteen available multipliers are deleted at random. Which multipliers a round keeps is decided before a single spin has run, and a round that loses its biggest orbs starts with a much smaller toolkit.

During play, the multipliers accumulate. Each win that lands alongside a multiplier orb adds its value to a running total, and the next win with an orb on the reels adds that accumulated amount to the reel’s multiplier before applying it to the winnings. Orbs that survive the early spins grow steadily more valuable.

Retrigger

Scatters keep working once the round is running. Three, four, five or six of them during the free games add five extra spins, and there’s no limit on how many times that can happen until the round reaches its 100 free spins ceiling.

The UP Option

The UP toggle sits beside the reels. Switching it on raises the cost of each spin and, in return, upgrades symbols and improves the odds of the free games triggering from the base game. It’s a per-spin commitment rather than a one-off purchase.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.8/10

You sit down expecting a lazy afternoon on the lake and get a slot that never stops asking for money: pay for a re-cascade, pay for the UP toggle, watch scatters appear and vanish without triggering. The reason to choose it anyway is those sticky orbs, because a cascade that won’t quit can leave a 500x multiplier sitting on the total.

Its best trick is the free games, where surviving multipliers keep accumulating until a long round pays far beyond what any single win suggests. Its worst is the pre-round cull: three to five of the fifteen multipliers are deleted before a spin runs, so the best version of the bonus is partly down to luck before it starts.

That suits players who like a game with decisions in it and don’t mind paying for them, and it will leave cold anyone who wants a straightforward spin-and-wait session. For the right kind of tinkerer, there’s a very good catch in this water.

Go Fishing FAQs

• What is the grid size of Go Fishing?

  Go Fishing uses a 6×5 grid, with wins awarded for eight or more matching symbols anywhere on the reels rather than on paylines.
• Who makes Go Fishing?

  Go Fishing is made by CQ9 Gaming.
• Can you buy the bonus on Go Fishing?

  There’s no direct free spins purchase. The UP option can be switched on to upgrade symbols and improve the odds of the free games triggering from the base game, at an extra cost per spin.
• How do you trigger free spins in Go Fishing?

  Landing four, five or six boat scatters anywhere starts 15 free games and pays an instant prize that grows with the scatter count. The triggering stake applies to every free spin.
• Can the free spins retrigger in Go Fishing?

  Yes. Scatters appearing while the free games are running add five more spins each time, and this can happen repeatedly until the round hits its cap of 100 free spins.
• What does the multiplier symbol do in Go Fishing?

  Coloured multiplier orbs stick to the reels until a spin finishes with no winning combination, then multiply the round’s total winnings. In the free games their values also accumulate across wins, so a long round builds them into something much larger.
• How does the eliminating feature work?

  Eight or more of the same symbol, excluding scatters and multiplier orbs, clears the winning symbols from the grid and drops in new ones. The cascade continues until a drop produces no new winning combination.
• What is the re-cascade feature in Go Fishing?

  After any spin, you can pay an extra charge, shown beneath the reels, to remove one or two types of low or mid-value symbols along with spent multiplier orbs. The winning rules are the same as the base game, and the option ends if you change your stake or enter or leave the free games.