The BEST episodes of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Every episode of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing!
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.
#1 - Salmon - River Tweed, Scotland
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/23/2020
Paul and Bob take a trip to the River Tweed in Scotland, where they continue their quest to catch a salmon.
#2 - The Grayling - River Ure, Yorkshire Dales
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/6/2019
Paul and Bob fish for graceful grayling on the stunning River Ure. They meet the surgeon who performed Bob’s life-saving heart bypass and re-enact the drama of the operating table – in a local pub!
#3 - Chub - Lower Wye, Herefordshire
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/27/2020
Bob and Paul return to the River Wye, Bob’s favourite river, to fish for chub.
#4 - Zander - River Severn, Worcestershire
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/3/2021
Paul 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.
#5 - Wild Carp - Powys, Mid Wales
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/26/2021
Paul 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.
#6 - Brown Trout - River Test, Hampshire
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/13/2020
Paul and Bob are on the Test in Hampshire, fishing for brown trout and musing on the ephemeral nature of life.
#7 - River Lea, Hertfordshire - Paul's Childhood River
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/30/2020
Paul and Bob visit Paul’s teenage fishing haunt, the River Lea in Hertfordshire.
#8 - The Pike - River Test, Hampshire
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/25/2018
Paul and Bob decide to try and catch a legendary pike. Facing the future, they write a eulogy for each other as the sun sets on their final fishing expedition.
#9 - Pike - Broadland, Norfolk
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/6/2020
Paul and Bob visit Norfolk to go lake fishing for what they hope will be a monster pike.
#10 - Grilse - River Exe, Devon
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/2022
Bob and Paul are in Devon and Somerset, where they fish for summer grilse on the River Exe. They then hit the beach to try shore fishing.
#11 - Tench – Rocklands Mere, Norfolk
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2024
Bob, Paul and Ted are targeting tench, and Bob makes Paul’s dreams come true when he reveals their overnight accommodation.
#12 - Grayling - River Dee, North Wales
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/2022
Paul, Bob and trusty terrier Ted travel to north Wales to fish the River Dee for grayling. They try to rediscover their lost youth on this trip, with mixed results.
#13 - The Lake District
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/12/2021
Paul 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.
#14 - Crucian Carp - Sutton Lake, Shropshire
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/2023
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.
#15 - The Barbel - Middle Wye, Herefordshire
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/27/2018
Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer tour the country's finest fishing spots and talk a lot of nonsense. Paul and Bob fish for barbel in Hay-on-Wye and sample the great outdoors.
#16 - Rudd - Norfolk Broads
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/2021
Paul 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.
#17 - The Pike - Lough Erne, Northern Ireland
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/30/2019
Paul and Bob fly to Enniskillen to fish for the pike which eluded them in series one. Paul demonstrates how to perform life-saving CPR and Bob tells Paul's fortune in a traditional Irish manner.
#18 - Sea Trout - Hampshire Avon, Dorset
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/18/2018
Paul fishes at the famous Bridge Pool near Christchurch in Dorset, hoping to catch sea trout. Bob arrives late but redeems himself by hooking the first fish of the day.
#19 - Bream - Burghley House, Cambridgeshire
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/5/2021
Paul 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.
#20 - The Perch - Upper Tamar Lake, Devon and Cornwall
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/23/2019
At the Upper Tamar Lakes, Paul and Bob fish for the predatory perch. When Bob reveals this week's accommodation which leaves Paul almost speechless.
#21 - Salmon – River Finn & River Mourne, The North of Ireland
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2024
Bob 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.
#23 - Salmon - River Tay, Scotland
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/16/2019
Bob has harboured a childhood dream to catch a salmon, so he and Paul set off for the River Tay in Scotland.
#25 - The Roach - River Wensum, Norfolk
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/11/2018
Paul and Bob fish the beautiful river Wensum in search of roach. They realise age is taking its toll on their physicality. But Bob has a plan to help Paul recapture his youth.