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 2024. A total of 49 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2025.
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40:00Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Paul 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.
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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
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40:00Paul, Bob and Ted head to the historic chalk stream of Driffield Beck in East Yorkshire, hoping to catch a wild brown trout, and Ted is spruced up in a local poodle parlour.
40:00Bob and Paul travel overseas for an all-out Irish fishing trip - it's their first time fishing the rivers of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
40:00Bob, Paul and Ted are targeting tench, and Bob makes Paul’s dreams come true when he reveals their overnight accommodation.
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 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.
40:00Bob 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.
40:00 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.
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.
Series 2 40:00
40:00Paul and Bob fish on the River Ure. They meet the surgeon who performed Bob's life-saving heart bypass and re-enact all the drama of the operating table.
40:00Paul and Bob fly to Enniskillen to fish for the Pike which eluded them in series one. They discuss their respective bad habits and Bob gives Paul a thorough health update.