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Slot Review: Alaskan Fishing

They say that the fishing in Alaska is some of the finest to be had anywhere. The image is quintessential: guys in warm coats slinging their poles into rushing rivers, as spotted salmon jump with scales shining in the frigid sunshine. Unless you just so happen to live up in that corner of the U.S., going fishing in Alaska can be a pretty expensive proposition. You won’t really make enough money to fund an entire trip playing the Alaskan Fishing online slot machine game by Microgaming, but you will undoubtedly enjoy the novelty of playing a game replete with no paylines, and hundreds of ways to win!

Alaskan Fishing is another successor to Microgaming’s experiment with the novel, no-paylines style of pokey play that started with Burning Love last year. Alaskan Fishing’s winnings are not based on horizontal and diagonal paylines, and instead offer two hundred and forty-three winning combinations that take place at different areas of the screen. You can bet between one cent and five cents with max coins of three hundred on this game, which keeps the stakes relatively low. The jackpot is a piddling five hundred coins (twenty-five dollars max), but this game tends to award “jackpots” left and right. The high number of winning combinations makes virtually every spin a winner with this slot game, justifying the ludicrous jackpot-to-wager ratio to some extent at least.

The images on the reels are very appropriate to the theming of this slot game. You’ll see the smiling fisherman, the tackle box with plenty of gear, the great brown bear, the angler’s trophy, and many other images. The title logo is the jackpot symbol, which is definitely the one to look for. Happy “Fishing!"

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