Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
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40:00Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Paul and Bob fish on the River Wensum in search of roach - they realise that age is taking its toll on their physicality, but Bob has a plan to help Paul recapture his youth.
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40:00Paul teaches Bob how to fly-fish for rainbow trout in the Monsal Valley in Derbyshire - they also discuss their beginnings in showbusiness and gossip about their contemporaries.
Series 5
Bob and Paul are in Devon and Somerset, where they fish for summer grilse on the River Exe. They then hit the beach to try shore fishing.
Series 1 40:00
40:00Paul and Bob fish for the mighty barbel in Hay-on-Wye - passing a graveyard, they muse about the future and chat to a local vicar about death and their own funerals.
40:00While in Norfolk fishing for tench, Bob tries to impress Paul and fails - after a brief respite in a local brewery, they camp down in yurts before fishing again the next day.
Series 4
Paul and Bob are on the mighty River Severn, fishing for one of the UK’s lesser known species, the zander. This Country star Charlie Cooper visits them bankside.
Paul and Bob head to Wales on a quest to catch a wild carp. They have netted some good carp in the past, but a ‘Welsh wildie’ is a new and intriguing target.
40:00Paul and Bob are on the mighty River Severn and fishing for one of the UK's lesser-known species - the zander - when This Country star Charlie Cooper visits them bankside.
40:00Paul and Bob head to Wales on a quest to catch a wild carp - they have netted some good carp in the past, but a 'Welsh wildie' is a new and intriguing target.
40:00It's the start of the coarse fishing season, and Paul and Bob are in the Norfolk Broads to fish in some of East Anglia's most historic and celebrated waterways to celebrate.
40:00Paul and Bob visit the glorious Lake District, a location that still has a special place in Bob's heart thanks to his memories of teenage holidays there in the 1970s.
40:00Paul and Bob fish at the estate lake of Burghley House near Stamford - their target is bream, but who knows what else they might catch in this rarely-fished water...
40:00Paul and Bob visit the dazzling and extraordinary island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, a place that is completely unlike anywhere they have fished before.
Series 3 1:00:00
1:00:00Bob and Paul revisit the River Wye in Herefordshire - having fished the Middle Wye for barbel before, this time they head to the spectacular Lower Wye to fish for chub.
30:00Paul and Bob go lake fishing in Wiltshire and are up before sunrise to give themselves a fighting chance of catching a crucian carp, one of the UK's shyest species.
35:00Paul and Bob return to the river where they first went fishing together after Bob's heart surgery - the Test in Hampshire - which is renowned as the home for fly-fishing.
40:00Paul and Bob head to Norfolk and attempt to ensnare a big pike - something that has eluded them so far on their fishing trips - before Bob reveals a hidden trick to Paul.
40:00Paul takes Bob on a trip down memory lane and back to the River Lea in Hertfordshire - where Paul used to come as a teenager with his mates - and welcomes a special guest.
40:00Paul and Bob return to Scotland to fish for salmon once more, this time on the mighty River Tweed after a previous last-ditch attempt to catch the fish on the River Tay.
Series 2 40:00
40:00Paul and Bob fish on the River Ure. They meet the surgeon who performed Bob's life-saving heart bypass and re-enact all the drama of the operating table.