"IF" you're talking about having your rods out the front, sitting at the front, and using the trolling motor at the front to move the boat :
I think boat control would be a problem ... plus you'd have your baits dragging behind the prop wash of the trolling motor. It would seem to be more cumbersome to do it that way, and I'm not sure what the purpose of doing it that way would be
Can you elaborate more on it ??