Marshal ford probably isn't the safest place but your rig should be ok. As safe as any low water bridge I suppose. The water level is hard for me to say because I don't have the ability to monitor it properly. I can tell you it has to be flowing pretty good. We always camp on this bar with a bluff just upstream. I know that doesn't narrow it down any.
Some will get their limit early, leave, come back and get their limit again, leave, and maybe come back for a third limit. I know it happens there every day.
I don't know......my creek has a lot of current and there are times when they won't even look at a fly unless it touches the bottom. I love swinging light streamers and topwaters but sometimes, even in the summer, it's gotta be on the bottom.
I grew up in the Boston mountains of northwest Arkansas, the creeks there are very seasonal and, although they hold smallmouth, do not support real healthy populations. So when I discovered the creeks of southern mo I was hooked. Those are my ideal flyrod waters.
This is what I've been tying. I cannot describe how excited I am to get to wade my creeks all day with my flyrod. Those are the days I work for all year.
That's a three dayer. I caught a 4lber on that float when I was a kid. The Kings hasn't been the same. I'm ready to catch them smallies on the fly rod.