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 August 2026.
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40:00Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Bob and Paul set off for The River Tay in Scotland. A ghillie guides them up the river and they try to catch the elusive fish, whilst discussing luck and fate.
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40:00Paul and Bob brave the wild lakes of Essex equipped with the latest tech. They discuss the true meaning of a mid-life crisis and visit a beauty clinic.
Series 4
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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.
Series 2 40:00
40:00Paul and Bob travel to the River Usk in Wales, where Paul's father taught him to fish. They discuss their respective childhoods and reflect on their own family lives.
Series 1 40:00
40:00Paul and Bob decide to try and catch a legendary pike - facing the future, they write a eulogy for each other and invite a consultant cardiologist to dinner for some medical tips.
40:00Paul fishes at the famous Bridge Pool near Christchurch in Dorset in a bid to catch sea trout - Bob arrives late, but he redeems himself by hooking the first fish of the day.
40:00Paul 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.
Series 4 40:00
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.
Series 1 40:00
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 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.
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.
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 5 35:00
35:00Paul 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.
Series 4 40:00
40:00Paul and Bob fish at the estate lake of Burghley House, near Stamford. Their target is the bream, but who knows what else they might catch in this rarely fished water.
Series 6 40:00
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.
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?