SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* PYLE THOMAS F JR (Last) (First) (Middle) 3500 CORBEN COURT (Street) MADISON WI 53704 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC [ JOUT ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 07/27/2005
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Class A Common Stock	07/27/2005		A		586	A	$0	10,929	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares
Common Stock Option	$17.07	07/27/2005		A		2,304		07/27/2006	07/27/2015	Class A Common Stock	2,304	$0	2,304	D

Explanation of Responses:

	Marilyn J. Matelski, Power of attorney	07/29/2005
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that, for good and valuable consideration,
the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby acknowledged, the
undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Wade T. Neuharth,
Scott M. Vos and Marilyn J. Matelski, and any of their substitutes,
signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)  execute for and on behalf of the undersigned (in accordance with
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and the rules thereunder (the 'Exchange Act')), in the undersigned's
capacity as a director of Johnson Outdoors Inc., a Wisconsin
corporation (the 'Company'), any and all Forms 3, 4 and/or 5,
and any amendments thereto, that are necessary or advisable
for the undersigned to file under Section 16(a) (collectively,
'Documents');

(2)  do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned that may be necessary or desirable to complete and
execute any such Documents and timely file such Documents with
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any
stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3)  take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection
with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact,
may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required
by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents
executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned
pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may
approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney in fact full
power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise
of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all
intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if
personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that each such attorney in fact
(or such attorney in fact's substitute or substitutes) shall lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the
rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that
each attorney in fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of
the undersigned, is not assuming, nor is such attorney in fact's
substitute or substitutes or the Company assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with the Exchange Act.
The undersigned agrees to defend and hold harmless each
attorney-in-fact (and such attorney in fact's substitute or
substitutes) from and against any and all loss, damage or
liability that such attorney-in-fact may sustain as a result
of any action taken in good faith hereunder.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until
the undersigned is no longer required to file Documents with
respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the
undersigned in a signed writing delivered to each of the foregoing
attorneys in fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of
Attorney to be executed as of this 23rd day of September, 2002.


/s/ Thomas F. Pyle, Jr.