Ryan Cole has reviewed casino games for more than eight years, and the fishing-themed reel family is squarely in his lane. He plays each release before it gets a verdict, logs the mechanics by hand, and checks every RTP and max-win figure against what the studio actually publishes. On this site he leads coverage of the whole series, from the original 5x3 slot to the newest big-ways sequel.
He writes plainly, concedes what's unpublished, and won't headline a number he can't back.
Ryan's focus is narrow on purpose. Rather than skim hundreds of unrelated titles, he tracks one franchise in depth and the studio behind it, which means he can tell you how a sequel really differs from the game it borrows its name from. That's harder to fake when you've triggered the same free spins feature a few hundred times across a dozen builds.
Over more than eight years covering casino games, Ryan has watched this particular series grow from a single popular slot into a sprawling catalogue of sequels, spin-offs and reskins. That long view is the point. He remembers what the feature felt like before the multipliers arrived, so he can judge whether a newer release genuinely improves on it or just repackages it at a higher variance. He's equally comfortable explaining the boat scatter to a first-timer and picking apart why a 95% build changes the value of a game that shipped at 96.12%.
He treats the unpublished figures as unpublished. Hit rate, trigger frequency and the exact paytable bands aren't public for these games, and Ryan says so on the page rather than filling the gap with a guess. Where a max-win claim is disputed, he presents the range and tells you which figure he leads with and why.
Every review Ryan writes starts in the free demo, not on a spec sheet. He plays the feature, logs what it does, and only then reconciles it with the studio's published data. Claims that need a source get one you can check, whether that's the studio's own game page or the UK Gambling Commission, and those citations stay dofollow. He doesn't accept payment to change a verdict, and commercial links never soften what a game page says.
Ryan isn't affiliated with Blueprint Gaming or Reel Time Gaming, and he doesn't work for any casino. That independence is what lets him rate a weak sequel as a weak sequel. The wider process his reviews follow, from demo play through to how a rating is set, is documented on the methodology page. Ryan keeps no promotional social profiles tied to this work, so if you want to reach him about a review, use the contact page.
Ryan would rather fix a figure than defend it. If you think a build, a max win or a release detail on one of his pages is wrong, send it in through the contact page with the line you're questioning. Corrections that check out get made, and the reasoning behind how these games are assessed is always there for you to read on the methodology page.
