I am going to swim against the current on this one...I dont believe it will work as well as you might suspect and here is my reasoning- in order to spin the blade at the maximum efficiency throughout the lenght of the cast the angle has to be relatively flat on the surface of the water.. if your ballast weight is in the rear the point of your line tie will always want to lay at a bad angle- meaning the blade wont spin as fast... thats why inline buzzbaits have a swivel point. I'm no scientist/engineer but I did spend many years building buzz and spinnerbaits.and have tried the direct body to blade wire design and could never make it work for me...even if i bent the wire coming out of the lead- it never ran consistently throughout the entire cast. You really have to smoke it in to keep the buzz blade turning. I realize its an extra step to add a connection point with split rings, loops, etc. but in this case I think it might be a neccesity. Dave