Tracy you likely can repair it with some inner tube without cutting the hose in two.
Cut a thin strip of old inner tube (either bicycle or car) with scissors. I like a piece about a half inch wide and 2-3' long. Doesn't have to be neat. Pull the hose up above water and wrap the inner tube around the leak while stretching it about 20-25%. Continue wrapping around on both sides alternating the wrappings over the hole. Put a hose clamp over where the wrapping end ends up. If you don't have a hose clamp pliers and a piece of baling wire will suffice.
It will look like some dang farmer fixed it but who cares? It will be under the water where no one will see it.
No need to cut the hose in two.
My dad was never much of a mechanic (I turned out quite the opposite being interested in mechanical things since an early age) but he always had a pair of pliers in his overalls and baling wire not too far from him. The man was a wizard with pliers, baling wire and old tire inner tubes. I've seen him fix numerous water lines that way that held up to pressures around 40 psi. Back in another life time when I owned a farm equipment dealership the inside joke with my mechanic employees was if they could not get something apart it was "go get Earl and his pliers". He had amazed them more than once with his patience (lucky he had that with me around
, I was not an easily raised kid) and pliers in his ability to acomplish something they could not with far superior tools! He grew up and got married in the depths of the Great Depression and learned to do a lot with a little. Miss that man!
