Symptoms of the disease that indicate it is indeed hereditary:
Your 3 year old son gets to your plug stash before you can put hooks on them and uses them as tub toys. He's been doing this since he was 18 months and he will be four next week.
You must wait until son gets tired of a particular plug so you can "lose it", throw hooks on it, and sneak it into the plug bag
All of your Blue Swimming plugs are in the "Tub Toy box" during spring
You tie a leader on a hookless danny plug (or Pikie, or Flaptail or mag darter) during son's bathtime to see how well it will swim while contemplating attaching splitshot to belly swivels to simulate balance factor of hooks.
Son's favorite lures are blue Dannys and Blurple Needlefish
You realize that your 2 ounce Storm Wildeyes are still at home as cut the hooks off two of them to play Big Fish eats Little Fish before stories the night before....
Son STILL has not relinquished Blue Danny plug and did I mention he said BOAT before MOMMA ?
I could go on with this