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How is his recall on land? That might be the first thing to start working on. And to keep him from swimming too far away you can attach a long line to his collar. I'd suggest using some kind of lightweight floating rope that will stay on the surface of the water so he doesn't get his legs tangled in it. A heavier rope that becomes waterlogged could be dangerous if it got wrapped around his legs or snagged on anything underwater.
When starting to do goose control work with my dogs I used 50' floating long lines to make sure that the dogs would come back to me when swimming, I didn't want them to keep swimming downstream after the geese, or way out into a lake. If they got to the end of the rope I would give it a light tug and a command to return and they would start swimming back to shore.
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