More Unusual Catch Slot Review
Fishing slots usually pretend the waiting is fun. More Unusual Catch doesn’t: the base game pays small and puts everything else aside for later, from Sticky Frames to jackpot Tackles to fifty tokens of Perk Bar. Spin-by-spin wins are pocket change here; the real money waits for a round you might sit a long time to see.
From Northern Lights Gaming, it returns to the same lake as Unusual Catch and pushes that game’s collection ideas further than before. It runs on a 5×4 grid with 20 fixed paylines, at 96.06% RTP with medium volatility, and stakes from 0.10 to 15.00 a spin.
Whether the second cast lands a bigger fish than the first is the question the rest of this covers.
Base Game & Features
The base game is a 5 reel, 4 row video slot with 20 fixed paylines. Wins run left to right from the first reel, and where more than one winning combination lands on the same line, the best one pays. All line wins from a spin are added together for the total.
The Wild substitutes for every symbol except the Scatter and the Angler. That’s the whole of its job, but the systems built around it do most of the heavy lifting in this game.
Purple Wild
The Purple Wild spawns additional Wilds when it appears, up to eight of them, and can also produce another Purple Wild. On a 4-row grid, eight spawned Wilds can blanket a lot of winlines at once.
Wild Sticky Frames and the Angler
Every Wild that lands leaves a Sticky Frame behind, starting at x1 and growing to a maximum of x5. The frames don’t pay on their own. They wait for the Angler symbol, which fills every Sticky Frame on the reels with a Wild and applies each frame’s multiplier to any win on that winline.
The Angler Wild bonus works in both the base game and Free Spins. In the base game, the frames are cleared at the end of the bonus. During Free Spins they stay put until the round finishes, which is where the real arithmetic of this game lives.
Bonus Perk Bar
Land two Scatters and a token drops into the Bonus Perk Bar. Collect 50 tokens and the bar fills, awarding an extra Bonus Perk Pick when Free Spins triggers. The bar then resets, and progress is saved per bet level, so changing stakes doesn’t carry your tokens with you.
Nudging Scatter Respin
Two Scatters on the top three rows trigger a respin with a twist. The reels carrying a Scatter are held and nudge down one row while the others respin. If two Scatters survive the respin, another token goes into the Perk Bar. The feature runs until a Scatter reaches the bottom row or five Scatters land, and three or more Scatters during it trigger Free Spins outright.
It’s a small feature doing careful work. A near-miss on the trigger gets a second chance to convert, and the consolation for a failed one is a token towards the Perk Bar, so nothing about a two-scatter landing is ever quite wasted.
Tackle Box Jackpot
Symbols can land carrying a Tackle overlay, and collecting Tackles can randomly trigger the Tackle Box Jackpot from either the base game or Free Spins. Twelve boxes appear, each hiding a GRAND, MAJOR, MINOR or MINI prize, and you pick until three matching prizes are revealed. Only one jackpot can be won per feature. Tackles are saved per bet, like Perk Bar tokens.
Because the trigger is random rather than a set count, there’s no visible progress bar to watch. The tackle box glowing in the bottom-left weeds of the lakebed is as close as the artwork gets to a hint that something is being stockpiled. The ladder, as multiples of stake:
- GRAND – 5,000x
- MAJOR – 1,000x
- MINOR – 75x
- MINI – 20x
More Unusual Catch Free Spins & Bonuses
Three, four or five Scatter symbols anywhere on the reels trigger Free Spins, awarding 10, 15 or 20 spins respectively. Scatters only appear in the base game, so the respin feature and the Perk Bar are your two routes in.
Bonus Perk Pick
Before the spins start, you pick fish to reveal perks. Up to five can be uncovered, and a filled Bonus Perk Bar grants an extra pick:
- Boost Perk – unlocks the first Big Bass on the trail and awards 5 extra spins with an x2 multiplier
- +2 Spins Perk – starts the round with two extra spins
- +Frames Perk – adds a random selection of Sticky Frames to the reels
- +Wilds Perk – adds more Wild symbols during Free Spins
- +Angler Perk – adds more Angler symbols during Free Spins
- No Perk – ends the pick
The Free Spins Trail
During the round, each Angler symbol highlights one position up the Free Spins trail, and triggers the Angler Wild bonus if Sticky Frames are on the reels. Reaching a Big Bass position awards 5 extra spins with a multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x10, rising with each successive Big Bass.
At the end of the round there’s a chance of one Bonus Fishing Spin, in which an Angler symbol is guaranteed to land. It counts as a continuation of Free Spins, though the guaranteed Angler doesn’t advance the trail. The trail resets when everything finishes. Spins play out automatically at the lines and bet of the triggering spin, and the game’s banner advertises wins over 15,000x the bet from a full session.
Buy Feature
Pressing BUY in the base game triggers Free Spins instantly, at the price displayed for your current bet and played at that bet. The buy runs at 96.10% RTP, marginally above the standard game’s 96.06%. It’s available in the base game only.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Playing this is closer to angling than to spinning: long quiet stretches on the water, a float bobbing, and the sense that the session is being saved up rather than paid out. That’s the reason to choose it. Almost nothing here pays well on its own, and the game barely pretends otherwise.
The strength is that everything you bank matters. The bonus round inherits every frame and every Angler you’ve collected, so the long build genuinely changes what the payout looks like rather than just gating it. The weakness is that fifty tokens is a long, thin road to an extra pick, and the base game pays too little to make the road feel like progress.
This suits the patient sort, the players who like a slot that remembers their work and settles up in one multiplied burst. Anyone after steady wins through a session will find the water cold long before the round arrives. But if filling the net in one haul is your idea of a good day’s fishing, this lake is stocked.
More Unusual Catch FAQs
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What is the RTP of More Unusual Catch?
The RTP is 96.06%. Buying the Free Spins feature through the Buy Feature runs slightly higher at 96.10%. -
Is More Unusual Catch high volatility?
No, it’s a medium volatility slot, which suits its design of gradual collection building towards bigger bonus payouts. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on More Unusual Catch?
Stakes run from 0.10 to 15.00 per spin, with 20 fixed paylines played on every spin. -
How do you trigger Free Spins in More Unusual Catch?
Scatters only appear in the base game, and three, four or five of them start the round with 10, 15 or 20 spins. A third Scatter landing during the Nudging Scatter Respin also gets you in. -
What does the Purple Wild do in More Unusual Catch?
When it appears it can spread up to 8 extra Wilds across the reels, or produce another Purple Wild to keep the chain going. Its substitutions are the same as a regular Wild’s: everything except Scatters and Anglers. -
How does the Tackle Box Jackpot work?
Collect Tackle overlay symbols and the jackpot can trigger at random, in either game mode. You then open boxes one at a time from a grid of twelve, and the first prize you uncover three times is the one you win, up to a 5,000x GRAND. Progress is saved per bet. -
What is the hit frequency of More Unusual Catch?
The hit frequency is 35.34%, so roughly one spin in three lands some kind of win. With medium volatility, those wins skew small outside the bonus features. -
Who makes More Unusual Catch?
More Unusual Catch is made by Northern Lights Gaming. It follows the studio’s earlier fishing slot Unusual Catch.
