Big Bass Casts a Vampire Fisherman Into Halloween Waters

Pragmatic Play’s fanged fisherman is back on the reels, this time with a cape and a taste for haunted waters. Big Bass Halloween Splash 1000 lands in UK lobbies as the fourth seasonal spin on the studio’s record-breaking fishing franchise, trading some of the base engine’s ferocity for a friendlier volatility setting without touching the headline multipliers that made the series a staple.

What’s been released

Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom have added Big Bass Halloween Splash 1000 to the Big Bass series, giving the familiar fishing format a Halloween theme and several changes to the bonus structure.
The game went live on 12 October 2026, built on the foundations of Big Bass Splash 1000, which
was released in December 2025 and serves as its mechanical foundation.

This isn’t the franchise’s first dip into spooky season.
Seasonal reskins of proven slot franchises have become a reliable volume strategy for major suppliers, with the Big Bass series alone now counting four Halloween variants in its catalogue.
What marks this one out is the character redesign:
the fisherman appears as a vampire, with pumpkins, bats, coffins and costumed fish used throughout the game.

On the numbers, the slot
uses a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines, medium volatility and a maximum RTP of 96.50%, with stakes ranging from 0.10 to 250 and a maximum win that reaches 20,000x the bet
, though
UK-facing listings show a narrower bet range of 10p to £5
. Operators also have the option to configure the title at lower return rates, with
operator-configurable lower variants of 95.50% and 94.50% also available.

How it plays

The core trigger follows familiar Big Bass logic:
landing three, four, or five scatter symbols in the base game awards 10, 15, or 20 free spins respectively
, and even a near-miss can rescue a round, since
even when only two scatters land, there is a chance that a third one will be fished onto the reels.

Once the feature starts, the fisherman wild does the heavy lifting.
Fisherman wilds collect the value of fish money symbols landing on the same spin, with those symbols carrying values up to 1,000x, and every fourth fisherman wild retriggers the feature with 10 additional free spins, advancing the win multiplier to 2x on the first retrigger, 3x on the second, and 10x on the third and final retrigger.
During free spins the wild becomes especially generous, as
the fisherman serves as the game’s wild symbol and can appear on all reels during the free spins mode, substituting for all regular symbols.

The Halloween flourish sits in the set-up screen.
Before the bonus game begins, players can select from six pumpkins to reveal up to five possible modifiers, which can unlock additional wilds, money symbols, free spins, start the round from the second multiplier level or increase the chance of random features activating.
Pumpkins don’t stop working once spins begin either, since
bazooka can replace other symbols when fishermen appear without money symbols
and additional pumpkin triggers can surface mid-round.

For players who’d rather skip the build-up, there are direct routes in.
Players can activate an ante bet that increases the stake by 50% and adds more scatters to the reels, while the regular free spins feature can be purchased for 100x the bet and super free spins cost 450x and increase the chance of landing money symbols carrying the 1,000x value.

Where it fits

Big Bass remains one of Pragmatic Play’s most reliable performers in UK lobbies, and this release leans into that strength rather than reinventing it. Compared with its base engine, the trade-off is clear:
the Halloween variant eases the volatility profile to medium and lowers the maximum win from 25,000x to 20,000x the bet, with an RTP of 96.50%.
That makes it a gentler ride than the high-variance Splash 1000 original, while still keeping the ceiling well above the market norm.

It also shows how far the franchise has stretched over the years. The first Halloween entry, released back in 2023,
also used a 5×3 layout with 10 paylines and followed the same 2x, 3x and 10x multiplier progression during free spins, though that title carried an RTP of 96.04% while fish values could reach 2,000x.
This year’s version swaps that older structure for
the pumpkin upgrade system, random bonus modifiers and the 20,000x maximum win
, a sign of how Pragmatic Play keeps iterating on its biggest slot brand rather than letting any single version sit still. With Halloween slots from multiple studios now landing in UK lobbies this month, Big Bass Halloween Splash 1000 gives players a familiar, tested framework with just enough seasonal dressing to feel new.

Sources

• GamblingNews – Pragmatic Play’s Iconic Fisherman Celebrates Halloween in Big Bass Halloween Splash 1000
• InterGame Online – Pragmatic Play unveils Halloween-themed Big Bass slot
• World Casino Directory – Pragmatic Play Releases Big Bass Halloween Splash 1000
• European Gaming – Pragmatic Play adds Halloween twist to Big Bass Splash 1000 formula