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 2023. A total of 13 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in April 2024.
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40:00Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Paul 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.
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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.
Bob, Paul and Ted travel to Scotland to celebrate Hogmanay. They fish the rivers Dee and Tay and throw a spectacular party to see in the new year with some very special guests.
Series 4
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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 6
Bob and Paul return to the Derbyshire Wye and its neighbour the Derwent, this time with Ted, to revisit the place they first fished together.
The pair head to the incredible tidal outcrop of Burgh Island on the south coast of Devon, where their quarry is wrasse. A very special surprise awaits Paul and terrier Ted.
Paul and Bob fish for crucian carp at a sequestered lake in Shropshire. In the hopes of guaranteeing success, they'll be staying lakeside in overnight bivvies.
Paul, Bob and Ted travel in style to the Hampshire Avon. Bob makes the most of the unique accommodation, and Ted has a blind date.
Paul and Bob travel to Dumfries and Galloway in search of a big pike. They stay overnight in a 15th-century haunted castle.
Paul, Bob and terrier Ted travel to Wales to fish in 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 30:00
30:00New. Paul 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.
30:00New. 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...
40:00New. Paul 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.