SEC FORM 4 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
 
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Johnson David W

(Last) (First) (Middle)
C/O JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC.
555 MAIN STREET

(Street)
RACINE WI 53403

(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)
Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
Vice President and CFO
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
12/04/2006
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 12/04/2006 A 3,391 A $0 6,407 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
Explanation of Responses:
Eric P. Hagemeier, Attorney-in-fact 12/07/2006
** 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 28th day of February, 2006.


/s/ David W. Johnson