SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Lang Edward F (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC. 555 MAIN STREET (Street) RACINE WI 53403 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 03/01/2006	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC [ JOUT ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. 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 Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
No Securities Benefically Owned	0	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

	Edward F. Lang	03/01/2006
	** 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 Alisa D. Swire, Paul F. Hoesly, James M. Bedore and
Eric P. Hagemeier, 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')), any and
all Forms 3, 4 and/or 5, and any amendments thereto, that are
necessary or advisable to report the undersigned's transactions in
and holdings of the equity securities of Johnson Outdoors Inc., a
Wisconsin corporation (the 'Company'), for purposes of section 16(a)
of the Exchange Act, (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 1st day of March, 2006.


/s/ Edward F. Lang