MId-South fly fishers was founded on August 31, 1977. The first officers and directors were: C. B. Nance, President; Kent Ingram,Vice President; Bill Martin, Secretary & Information Office; Merritt Hale, Treasurer; Lloyd McCuiston, Ghiliie; and C. E. Bretherick, Roy Gorrlson and Jim Keeton, Board Members.

Since the majority of the early members lived in West Memphis the club's charter is in Arkansas so we're a member of the Southern Council (AR, KS, western LA, MO, OK and TX) instead of the South Eastern Council (AL, FL, GA, KY, eastern LA, MS, NC, SC, and TN) of the Federation of Fly Fishers.

The MSFF along with the Arkansas Fly Fishers of Little Rock in May 1988 raised funds to purchase a public access at Cow Shoals on the Red River. Each club raised $2,000 each and the Little Rock Club had a member that donated $1,000 on his own. AGF Foundation matched our donations on a two to one basis to reach the purchase price.

In 1993 Mid-South Fly Fishers published "Home Waters: Guide to Fishing Northern Arkansas, Western Tennessee, and Southern Missouri".

1994 saw the beginning of a long association with the Ducks Unlimited "Great Outdoors Festival". The Mid-South Fly Fisher's has consistently supplied one of the largest groups of volunteers for this event. We are always there in the fishing village, teaching casting, demonstrating fly tying and put on seminars

EstablisedW.E.T. (Water Education Teams), a water monitoring program that involves high schools located near a selected river or stream. The selected schools collect samples and perform as many as 25 experiments including dissolved oxygen, nutrients, heavy metals, and study aquatic life.

Established the Mid-South Fly Fishers Scholarship Foundation

In 2003 we participated in the first "Hooked on a Cure" event in Mountain Home, AR to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. “Reel Divas” Organized by the Women of MSFF in 2003 (Women’s Outreach).

C.B. Nance 1977-8	Kent Ingram 1978-9	Paul Petit 1979-80	Fred Brown 1980-1	Burr Hughes 1981-2
Ben Troughton 1982-3	George Harmeling 1983-4	Jack Lewis 1984-5	C. B. Nance 1985-6	Indie Cockerham 1986-7
Chuck Orvis 1987-8	Wayne Longo 1988-9	Mike Pollard 1989-90	John Berry 1990-1	Jim Cowan 1991-2
Jim Bailey 1992-3	Monte Stark 1993-4	Jennifer Jenkins 1994-5	Michael Pachis 1995-6	John Berry 1996-7
Roger Maler President 1997-8	Donald Dunn 1998-9	Denis Dunderdale 1999-2000	Dan Brown 2000-1	Roger Maler 2001-2
Mike Stark 2002-3	Mac Caradine 2003-4	Don Branson 2004-5	Kathy Post 2005-6	Mike Isom 2006-7
Mike Wilhelm 2007-8