I was trying to remove the blade from an old chatterbait and the eye of the jig broke.  So I had this blade that wasn't attached to anything.  I decided to attach the blade to a weedless spoon.  Does anybody think this is a good idea?  In what situations would it work better than a regular chatterbait? 

 

 

They used to make some baits like the chatterstick that were various different baits that had a chatterbait blade on the front. No idea if they worked or not. I'm sure that will catch some fish. 

That spoon looks like it is about 1/4oz. I think you would have a hard time keeping it from rising with the blade in front. A heavier spoon (1/2 or 3/4 oz) might be better. But throw it as is and let us know how it fishes.

As someone who has used a lot of spoons, mostly for pike, I know it doesn't take much to wreck the action of the spoon. I'd be very curious to find out how this combination works.

OK, I finally had a couple of hours of free time to go fishing and try out a bunch of stuff.  The bladed spoon in the picture is a 1/2 oz Northland Jaw-Breaker spoon with the Chatterbait blade attached with a split ring.  Since I have a second Jaw-Breaker I tried it first to see how it runs.  At a moderate retrieve, it runs somewhere between 8 inches to 1 foot below the surface with a nice swimming action.  The bladed version ran very shallow (at a moderate retrieve, maybe 1/2 a foot at the deepest.  At a faster retrieve it was in danger of breaking the surface).  It vibrated like a Chatterbait, but the swimming action was not there or minimal at best.  An interesting experiment, but I ruined a Chatterbait when I removed the blade, and the bladed spoon did not work as I imagined.

Is it something in the water?...