Yesterday I went out and fished a zoom fat Albert grub and I noticed it was constantly spinning or rotating while I was retrieving it. I was using spinning gear, 10lb braid to an 8lb fluorocarbon leader, Grub was Texas rigged on a 2/0 EWG hook, with a 1/8oz lead weight. First time I tried it using an EWG hook on a grub. 

 

I checked the knot at the hook, it was straight. I rigged the grub dead centre in the nose and through the rear. The tail was positioned straight down and also tried straight up. Nothing seemed to work. Rerigged it four or five times, same results. 

 

I know something in this setup is the culprit, just can't figure out what has causing this. Any ideas ?

My opinion is its in the way you are rigging it. Try it on a ball head jig or darter head with a weed guard and you should be ok.

Was the weight sliding or pegged? It shouldn't rotate if it's pegged, but they will corkscrew if they aren't. 

7 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Was the weight sliding or pegged? It shouldn't rotate if it's pegged, but they will corkscrew if they aren't. 

Unpegged, never peg the weight maybe that's issue. Thank you for the tip. 

9 hours ago, Gundog said:

My opinion is its in the way you are rigging it. Try it on a ball head jig or darter head with a weed guard and you should be ok.

Also, this person has their grub rigged tail down. This is is how i usually rig mine, on swim jigs too. The only time I rig it tail up is when the smallies are hammering a grub and I want to get the most out of a used bait, by flipping it around .

Generally, the bigger and curlier the tail, the more drag is created while pulling through the water,  as the tip of the tail is pulled backward, slackening the outside edge of the tail. The famous undulating curly-tail action is caused by water forcing the slackened edge back and forth as it flows past.  But without an additional force to hold the grub body in position, the drag on the tail will just create a spiraling effect that rolls the whole body, rather than a back and forth effect. With a jighead, that second force is provided by gravity.  

One more thing - if the baits are stored so they're kinked, it's possible the body has formed a bend in it, which would cause it to track wrong - even though you rigged it right.

I have always rigged mine the same way you do. A 2/0 hook to me is too big for this grub. I use a 1/0 skip gap hook and peg my weight and have never had the problems you are describing.

I want to add that when I peg my sinkers I use the little rubber strips that you pull through the sinkers. I rarely use the little sinker pegs you slide on your line in front of the sinker to peg it.