Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is a TV show on BBC2. Two friends, beautiful places and a good natter. Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse go on a life-affirming, funny journey, sharing their changed outlooks and trying to land a catch. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 51 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in November 2025.
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Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Paul and Bob head to Wales to fish for sea trout as the sun sets in Carmarthenshire. How will they both fare in the pitch darkness?
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Paul 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 8
Paul and Bob travel to Hampshire to fly fish in the idyllic River Itchen with their trusty canine friend Ted in tow.
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.
35:00Paul 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.
40:00Bob 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 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.
40:00Paul, 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...
35:00Bob 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 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.
40:00The pair head to the incredible tidal outcrop of Burgh Island on the south coast of Devon - their quarry is wrasse, but a very special surprise awaits Paul and terrier Ted.
Series 4 40:00
40:00Paul 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.
Series 6 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.
45:00Paul, 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.
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.
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 4 40:00
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.
40:00Paul and Bob take to the water in the Norfolk Broads to fish for rudd, full of the joys of the first day of the fishing season.
40:00Paul and Bob visit the glorious Lake District, which still has a special place in Bob’s heart thanks to his memories of teenage holidays there in the 1970s.