Terrier Fishers Apart altogether from the subject of river pollution,
fishermen are having a very thin time on some of the Scottish rivers, which are so low and clear as to make fishing quite vain. One fisherman, at any rate, is regretting this on behalf of his dogs as well as himself. By a sort of accident he discovered that one of his terriers was an expert retriever of hooked fish, and other terriers quickly learnt the game and delighted in it. The zeal of these dogs has added no small pleasure to the sport of fishing, and the dogs accompany him on most of his fishing trips. Lord Knutsford had Labrador retrievers which were experts in landing fish, even of some size ; and I knew one—in Ireland—that caught a salmon on his own as it struggled at the shallows of the estuary. That terriers could be trained to play such a game "was new to me till I read that most delightful book, Fisherman Naturalist, by Major Anthony Buxton.
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