TERRIER FISHERS SIR,—Sir William Beach Thomas tells us that fishermen
have recently discovered that terriers can be trained to retrieve hooked salmon. May I be allowed to say that I made, between seventy and eighty years ago, the still more startling discovery that they could be trained to bring un- hooked salmon to shore? I have seen it done at half-tide in the long-ago dismantled weir at Rhos-on-Sea, when Colwyn Bay was no more than a bay with a few scattered farms on its shores. I was on friendly terms with a Prussian terrier (belonging to Mr. Parry Evans of Plas Fynach, the owner of the weir who was presented with a silver collar bearing the inscription: "To Jack for his proficiency as a Salmon Fisher from the
town of Llandudno." I have seen Jack riding on the back of a large salmon which he eventually brought uninjured to shore.—Yours etc., Sunnyside, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge. THOMAS THORNELY.
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