So I was at my local casino using some freeplay I received before I was going to play poker. These machines are fairly new and added pretty recent and I have had some decent luck on them. I proceed to use my freeplay and after about $20-$30 in I get a bonus. I then hit the small progressives for like $6-$40 and then hit one for around $250 which now I'm pretty surprised I have hit 4 of the progressives. I then hit the progressive for I think around $1100. At this point there are 3 progressives left. One of which is the $5200 progressive, around $200, and $100 something. I then hit then $2xx.00 one, then the $1xx.00 one. At this point there is only one progressive left and it's the rainbow fish. I call my girlfriend on the phone and tell her of my luck so far. It is counting down from the 7 spins and I'm thinking in my head there is no way I will hit this... it gets down to 1 spin while I'm on the phone with her and 3 lures! I'm then screaming OMG OMG OMG! It can't be anything else other then the $5200 progressive?!? The fisherman tugs and tugs and pulls up that beautiful $5k fish. Biggest hit of my slot playing career! Pretty happy with it. This was on a max bet of 1.75 playing max.
I played this slot a few times prior and have had some pretty decent luck on it. I have seen the bonuses do pretty well for people. I have seen people min bet .35 and make $200-$250 on the bonus. On a previous trip I had some freeplay as well and was max betting and got a bonus. I didn't get any lures on the bonus and then I was ready for the consolation prize I have seen people get when they don't get one and it sends the rod down and picks up a boot for like $10-15 dollars. The fisherman started to tug and the reel pretty hard... to my surprise he pulled up the redfish (bass I think) for $1013. I saw a lady on Friday and the same thing happened to her and instead of pulling up the boot she pulled up the same fish for like a $800 progressive.