Welcome! My name is Malachi Cryder. This story starts with my first job out of college. I was working in tech living in Austin, Texas many hundreds of miles from the Montana trout fisheries I love so dearly, and wishing I could be doing anything other than staring at a computer screen. The original idea came on a particularly slow training day, when I sketched out my first concept of a fly box made of wood and fiberglass…. a concept pulling inspiration from the skills I’d learned when building my first drift boat in high school. I wanted a fly box that married artistry and practicality.

Fast forward 9 years, I’m married and a father. I still live in Austin, and I’ve built another drift boat since then. But the time finally came to take that fly box concept and make it a reality. I hope you find my idea as beautiful and as functional as I do.