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 September 2026.
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40:00Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Paul 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.
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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 1
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40:00Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer tour the country's finest fishing spots and talk a lot of nonsense. Paul and Bob fish for tench in Norfolk and reminisce about their childhood.
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.
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 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.
40:00Paul 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.
40:00Bob 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.
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40:00Bob 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.
40:00Paul 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.
40:00Paul 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.
Series 5 40:00
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 4
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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.
Series 3 40:00
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.