How to Play Fishing Time BGaming.

Your First Round, From Start to Finish.

1. Open the demo link and let the wheel interface load — no account is required to look around.
2. Pick a chip value from the on-screen selector; values run from a small minimum up to a much larger maximum per chip.
3. Tap or click the wheel sector you want to bet on — standard white/black sectors, or one of the three catch tiers.
4. Repeat step 3 on additional sectors if you want to spread chips across more than one bet per round.
5. Hit the spin button and watch the wheel resolve; a Big, Huge or Mega Catch sector triggers the fishing animation automatically.
6. Check your updated balance, then either place a fresh bet or use Rebet to repeat the same spin.

For example: placing one $1 chip on a standard black sector and one $0.50 chip on the Mega Catch sector covers two outcomes in the same spin. That combination gives you a smaller, more frequent payout plus a shot at the rare top-tier bonus, for a combined $1.50 stake that round.

Bet Range and Chip Values.

Unlike a lot of slots, Fishing Time skips a single "total bet" slider entirely. Your actual stake for the round is simply the sum of every chip you've dropped onto the wheel, sector by sector. That means it pays to glance at the running total before hitting spin, especially once you're placing chips on more than one spot at a time.

Manual play works fine too, and plenty of players never touch these shortcuts at all.

None of the three shortcuts unlock anything extra — they're purely about pace, not payout.

Speeding Things Up: Autoplay, Rebet and Double Bet.

Once you're comfortable with manual spins, three shortcuts speed things up. Autoplay repeats your current bet pattern for a set number of rounds without you clicking spin each time — useful for a steady pace, less useful if you want to react to what just landed. Rebet simply repeats your last spin's exact chip placement, which is the quickest way to keep a session going without re-selecting sectors. Double Bet doubles whatever you've currently placed before the next spin, letting you scale up quickly if you decide to increase your stake mid-session.

None of these change the odds — they're conveniences for repeating or adjusting a chip betting pattern across your chosen bet sectors, not a strategy that shifts the underlying RTP or sector probabilities in your favor. The minimum bet per chip stays fixed at whatever the operator's floor is regardless of which shortcut you're using, so Double Bet from that floor simply doubles your chip value, not a jump to a different tier of play.

There's no wrong way to reach that point. Some players get there in one long session, others across several short ones.

A Second Session: What Changes Once You Know the Wheel.

There is no wrong way to spend that first session. Some players prefer to keep exploring for longer before settling into a routine, and that is a reasonable choice too.

Your first session is mostly about orientation — getting used to where the chip selector sits, how the wheel resolves, and what the fishing animation looks like the first time it plays. By a second or third session, most players stop watching the demo tutorial mentally. They start making faster, more deliberate choices: settling on a fixed chip value instead of experimenting each spin, and picking a bet-sector pattern they stick with rather than changing it round to round. That shift from exploration to routine is normal and, if anything, makes the session easier to budget for, since you already know roughly how many spins your bankroll covers at your chosen chip value.

One practical change worth making by session two: decide in advance whether you're playing purely on plain sectors, purely chasing bonus tiers with the All Bonuses option, or splitting between the two. First-time players often drift between these approaches mid-session without noticing, which makes it harder to judge afterward whether a result was typical or unusual for the approach they were actually using.

Building a Habit Worth Repeating.

A habit is really just a decision you have already made, so you do not have to make it again under pressure mid-session.

Players who stick with Fishing Time for more than a session or two tend to treat it the way they'd treat any regular hobby. Same rough budget, same rough session length, revisited on their own schedule rather than chased after a loss. Some operators layer weekly cashback or loyalty point programs on top of individual games like this one, which can make a repeat session worth a bit more over time. Check your chosen casino's own promotions page for what applies, since that's set by the operator, not by BGaming.

The habit that actually pays off is a boring one: decide your bet sectors and chip value before you open the wheel, not while a Mega Catch chase is already in progress. That single decision, made in advance, is what separates a session you'd happily repeat tomorrow from one you regret before it's even over.

A First Session, Walked Through in Numbers.

Say you sit down with a $30 budget and decide on $0.50 chips before you start. That gives you sixty chip-sized decisions to work with if you place exactly one chip per spin, or fewer if you spread multiple chips across sectors each round the way the wheel is designed to be played.

A common pattern for a first session: one chip on a plain sector (roughly even odds of a small return) plus one smaller chip on the All Bonuses option, which covers all three catch tiers together for a combined stake per spin. That combination keeps you in the round on most spins while still giving every bonus tier a chance to trigger, without needing to pick just one catch tier to focus on.

Sixty rounds is enough, statistically, to see a Big Catch trigger at least once for most sessions. Remember, 4 of the wheel's 54 sectors are Big Catch, so across that many rounds the expected count is a handful of hits, though any specific session can run higher or lower. Huge Catch (3 sectors) and especially Mega Catch (1 sector) are rarer events that a single session of that length may or may not include at all. None of that is a flaw in the game — it's just what the published sector counts predict over a sample that size.

Common Mistakes First-Time Players Make.

• Changing chip value mid-session to chase a loss, rather than deciding a budget and chip size in advance and sticking to it.
• Assuming the All Bonuses option is a discount — it's three separate chip placements bundled into one click, not a cheaper combined bet.
• Skipping the demo entirely and betting real money on the very first spin, before seeing how the pacing and bonus animations actually feel.
• Not checking the specific operator's own bet-limit screen, and assuming every casino runs the exact same chip-value range described here.

The answers below cover what came up most often while putting this guide together.

Getting Started Questions.