Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is a TV show on BBC2. Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse share their life experiences while fishing. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 56 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in May 2026.
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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.
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 7
Paul, Bob and Ted target a large rudd lake near Epping Forest, and all three try 'champing' for the first time – staying overnight in a church.
Series 6 40:00
40:00Bob and Paul return to the Derbyshire Wye and its neighbour the Derwent - the very place they first fished on the programme together - to revisit the place with Ted.
40:00 40:00Paul and Bob fish for crucian carp at a sequestered lake in Shropshire - in the hopes of guaranteeing success, they elect to stay lakeside in overnight bivouacs.
40:00Paul, Bob and Ted travel to the Hampshire Avon - a home to one of the UK's most diverse fish populations - as Bob enjoys the unique accommodation and Ted has a blind date.
Series 7
Paul, Bob and Ted fish the River Ouse in Bedfordshire, hoping to catch a big perch. Bob makes Paul a dinner he will never forget!
Series 6 40:00
40:00Paul and Bob head to a hidden pike lake in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland where they have an overnight stay in a 15th-century haunted castle.
Series 7
Paul, Bob and Ted face the elements head on as they fish on the beach at Blakeney Point, taking refuge in Bear’s Cottage for the night to dry out.
Series 6 40:00
40:00Paul, Bob and terrier Ted travel to Wales to fish the remote and stunning landscape of the River Irfon and the Upper Wye - it's also Ted's birthday, but how will they celebrate?
Series 5 40:00
40:00Paul and Bob venture to Lough Corrib - Ireland's largest lough and one of the best places in the country to try trout fishing - and meet Undertones singer Fergal Sharkey.
40:00Paul and Bob visit the heart of the English countryside in the Surrey Hills to fish for carp and barbel before health expert Dr Anand Patel joins them by the lake.
40:00Paul and Bob take trusty terrier Ted to fish for perch on the River Thames before comedian Richard Herring joins the three of them for dinner.
40:00Bob can't resist the challenge to look for the Loch Ness Monster when he and Paul catch the sleeper train to the Scottish Highlands to fish for ferox trout.
40:00Paul, Bob and trusty terrier Ted travel to north Wales to fish the River Dee for grayling and to rediscover their lost youth, but they end up having mixed results...
40:00Bob and Paul fish the beautiful River Exe in Devon looking for grilse - also known as the 'summer silver' and have a go at shore fishing at Bossington Beach in Somerset.
Series 7
Paul, Bob and terrier Ted travel to Nottingham to fish the mighty River Trent for barbel. They stay in a memorable party house and invite a very special guest to join them.