<P>Do not tie him to you. That is counter productive. If you think about what you said, he did not do this last year, that tells me you need to go back to kindergarden with him. You also need to do the same things in the field as you do in training. A dog will develop two different patterns. One for training and a different pattern for hunting if you do not treat each the same. Dogs learn by patterns. When you hunt, that is a different pattern in the enviornment than training. For example, you can put a bird and gun over the dog in training, but when you go into the field the pattern has changed in many ways. Now you got multiple birds coming in or circleling and multiple gun shots. That raises the level of intesity of the dog. You have to follow through with the same pattern of what you can control such as the way in which you steadied and corrected the dog in training. You need to do the same in the field. The dog thinks breaking is OK unless you show him otherwise. You did it in training, now you need to follow through in the field. Good luck and let me know if I can help. Jim</P>