Fishing in a Louisiana swamp isn’t so much a hobby as it is a test of how badly you want tetanus. Between the mosquitoes that could bench-press a catfish and the gators that eye you like a main course, every cast feels like a dare.

The air’s thicker than gumbo, the smell’s somewhere between “swamp gas” and “old regrets,” and yet somehow, it’s still the most peaceful damn place on Earth, assuming you don’t get dragged under by something with more teeth than sense.

While gators are all you have to worry about in a normal swamp, in the Fish Tales Halloween slot from Booming, there are a few more predators eager for a feast.

Don’t go into the water

The Fish Tales Halloween slot features 20 paylines across five reels, set in a swamp in Louisiana. You can bet from as little as $0.20 per spin, with the chance to win up to $300,000 if you’re playing at the $60 maximum bet.

However, thanks to the 5,000x max multiplier, even at the minimum bet, you’ll still have a shot at $1,000. The slot features high volatility, which will mean far fewer smaller wins while you hunt for the bigger wins.

The RTP for the Fish Tales Halloween slot is 96.1%.

The slot’s wild symbol serves both its base function, substitutes for other symbols to complete winning combinations, and as a collector of instant wins from corpse Piranha gold coin symbols. The corpse Piranha gold coin symbols feature values between 0.25x and 1,000x your bet.

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During the base game, the Big Net feature can be triggered at random. When it does, it will collect and award all the values of all corpse Piranha gold coin symbols on the reels. The Cash Add symbol can also be triggered at random whenever a wild symbol appears on the reels without any corpse Piranha gold coin symbols.

Once triggered, it will add corpse Piranha gold coin symbols to the reels, allowing the wild symbol to collect them.

Every bonus symbol that appears on the reels will be added to the collection in the barrel. At any time during play, the Barrel Boost can activate and add additional bonus symbols to the reels to trigger a round of free spins. A round of free spins is triggered with three, four, or five bonus symbols, which will award ten, fifteen, or twenty free spins.

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During a round of free spins, a meter above the reels tracks how many wild symbols you collect. Every fourth wild symbol collected will award an extra five free spins. If three stacked gold coin symbols land together, they form a Monster Bass symbol.

This oversized symbol covers an entire reel and moves down by one position after each spin if not collected by a wild symbol. When collected, it moves up by one position. The Monster Bass symbol will carry a cash prize of 50x, 100x, 250x, 500x, or 1000x your bet.

In addition to triggering a round of free spins the old-fashioned way, the slot also gives you the option to purchase a round.

Is the Monster Bass slot worth a few spins?

There are slot providers that take creating a slot for the Halloween period version seriously, creating something unique and memorable. The other option is to create a spooky/horror-themed skin that you slap on another game.

That’s what Booming has done with its Fish Tales Halloween slot, which is a skinned version of its Fish Tales Monster Bass slot. There’s nothing wrong with the slot. It offers a great selection of themed bonus features, and the graphics are great.

There is just a part of me who can’t support this practice. This is especially true when we have some great original horror-themed slots like Hellevator and Dreadworks going around. I give the Fish Tales Halloween slot a six out of ten.

If you’re looking to explore some other horror/spooky-themed slots this Halloween, we’ve put together a whole category for you.