PAUL AND BOB’S FAVOURITE SPOTS

PAUL: “The River Lea (above), which I fished as a kid, was my nursery.” It runs 42 miles (68km) from the Chilterns to the Thames. It’s where Paul first went fishing with his dad when he was five, baiting the hook with Mother’s Pride bread. After just five minutes, they caught a roach – “a sparkling silver, iridescent blue and red little thing” – and he was hooked.

PAUL: “The barbel fishing in the Wye is fantastic – as is the chub and grayling. People call it the Herefordshire Wye, but it’s big enough to call itself the Wye, and the others have to define themselves by their location.”

BOB: “I’ll always have an affection for the River Test, in Hampshire, because that’s the first place Paul took me. I used to watch Jack Hargreaves [who made 28 episodes of the TV series Gone

Fishing between 1959-1963] and think, I will never fish this place – it is extraordinary.” The chalk stream is world-famous for its trout and grayling but also attracts salmon and sea trout.

PAUL: “I’m very at home on the Dee in Scotland (bottom). I’ve been going back there for 30 years, with my oldest friend from infants’ school or with my dad [who died last year]. I’ve caught a lot of big salmon in it. I usually go to a place called Park, which as a boy I would never have dreamt I would get to go to.” The Dee travels 87 miles (140km) from the Cairngorms to the North Sea, and it’s the spawning ground for wild salmon weighing up to 30lb. The upper reaches run through the Balmoral estate, and the Duke of Edinburgh still fly-fishes today.

BOB: “The Derbyshire Wye, in the Peak District, is paradise.” The duo went there in episode three of series one, in which Paul taught Bob how to fly-fish for rainbow trout. This limestone tributary of the Derwent is just 15 miles (24km) long and is also home to wild brown trout and grayling.

PAUL: “The Hampshire Avon – in the first series, we were in Christchurch harbour in Dorset catching sea trout in it, but it’s the most mixed fishery in the country – you have everything.”