I was about 10 and I don't think I was the brightest minnow in the bucket. I remember going to a paid lake and fishing off a dock and not catching any fish. Then I spotted a knot hole in the dock, where upon lying on my stomach I could see a fish about 8 inches long. I threaded my line and worm through this knot hole and almost instantly caught this lazing fish. I guess it never dawned on me that I could never bring this fish through the knot hole, for I remember lying there for about an hour trying to figure out how to land this fish to hand. I can still see the fish dangling in air bumping the bottom of the dock floor over and over, as other children close to my age came up with their ideas on how to land the poor fish. From that long ago day I have been hooked on fishing. I have figured out though not to fish through knot holes.