Helen P. Johnson-Leipold Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Johnson Outdoors Inc. 555 Main Street		Copy to: James M. Bedore, Esq. Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.
Racine, Wisconsin 53403		1000 North Water Street
(Name and address of agent for service)		Suite 1700 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
262-631-6600		414-298-1000
(Telephone number, including area code of agent for service)

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Title of Securities to be Registered	Amount to be Registered		Proposed maximum offering price per share				Proposed maximum aggregate offering price				Amount of Registration fee
Class A Common Stock, $0.05 par value per share	110,000 shares (1)		$	35.27	(2)		$	3,879,700	(2)		$	449.66	(2)

(1)

Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), this Registration Statement also covers any additional shares of Class A Common Stock which become issuable under the Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2012 Non-Employee Director Stock Ownership Plan (the "Plan") by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any similar transaction effected without the receipt of any consideration by Johnson Outdoors Inc. (the "Registrant") which results in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of the Registrant's Class A Common Stock.

(2)

For the purpose of computing the registration fee, the Registrant has used $35.27 as the average of the high and low prices of the Class A Common Stock as reported on May 4, 2017 on the NASDAQ Global Select Market^SM for the offering price per share, in accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h). The actual offering price will be determined in accordance with the terms of the Plan.

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), are incorporated herein by reference:

(c) The description of the Registrant's Class A Common Stock contained in the registration statement filed pursuant to section 12 of the Exchange Act and all amendments thereto or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes hereof to the extent that a statement contained in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part hereof.

The Registrant's directors and officers are entitled to certain statutory rights to be indemnified by the Registrant against certain liabilities and expenses, provided the director or officer is either successful in the defense of such litigation or is otherwise determined not to have engaged in willful misconduct, knowingly violated a criminal law, failed to deal fairly with the Registrant or its shareholders in connection with a matter in which the director or officer had a material conflict of interest or derived an improper personal benefit in the performance of his or her duties to the Registrant.

Article Ten of the Registrant's Amended and Restated By‑Laws also contains provisions entitling directors and officers of the Registrant to indemnification against certain liabilities and expenses. The Registrant's Amended and Restated By‑Laws are incorporated herein by reference in Exhibit 4.3.

Directors and officers of the Registrant are covered by directors' and officers' liability insurance under which they are insured (subject to certain exceptions and limitations specified in the policy) against expenses and liabilities arising out of proceedings to which they are parties by reason of being or having been directors or officers.

4.1	Articles of Incorporation of the Company.
4.2	Amendment to Articles of Incorporation changing the name of the Company.
4.3	Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company.
4.4	Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2012 Non-Employee Director Stock Ownership Plan, as amended
5	Opinion of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. as to the legality of the Class A Common Stock being registered.
23.1	Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2	Consent of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. (included in its opinion filed as Exhibit 5 hereto).
24	Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto).

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post‑effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the Registration Statement.

Provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(a)(i) and (1)(a)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post‑effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

(b) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each such post‑effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

2. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

3. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Racine, State of Wisconsin, on May 10, 2017.

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Helen P. Johnson-Leipold and David W. Johnson, and each of them individually, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that either said attorney-in-fact and agent or his or her substitute may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Signature	Title	Date

/s/ Helen P. Johnson-Leipold	Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and	May 10, 2017
Helen P. Johnson-Leipold	Director (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ David W. Johnson	Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal	May 10, 2017
David W. Johnson	Financial and Accounting Officer)

/s/ Thomas F. Pyle, Jr.	Vice Chairman of the Board and Director	March 2, 2017
Thomas F. Pyle, Jr.

/s/ Terry E. London	Director	March 2, 2017
Terry E. London

/s/ John M. Fahey, Jr.	Director	March 2, 2017
John M. Fahey, Jr.

/s/ Edward F. Lang, III	Director	March 2, 2017
Edward F. Lang, III

/s/ Katherine Button Bell	Director	March 2, 2017
Katherine Button Bell

/s/ Richard Sheahan	Director	March 2, 2017
Richard ("Casey") Sheahan

/s/ Edward Stevens	Director	March 2, 2017
Edward Stevens

Exhibit Number	Description	Incorporated Herein by Reference to	Filed Herewith
4.1	Articles of Incorporation of the Registrant	Exhibit 3.1(a) to the Registrant's Form 10-Q report for the quarter ended March 31, 2000 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 15, 2000.

4.2	Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of the Registrant changing the Registrant's name.	Exhibit 3.1(b) to the Registrant's Form 10-Q report for the quarter ended March 31, 2000 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 15, 2000.

4.3	Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant	Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Form 10-K report for the year ended October 1, 2010 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 9, 2010.

4.4	Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2012 Non-Employee Director Stock Ownership Plan, as amended		X

5	Opinion of Counsel		X

23.1	Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		X

23.2	Consent of Counsel		Contained in Opinion filed as Exhibit 5

24	Power of Attorney	Signature Page to Registration Statement

Wisconsin		39-1536083
(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

555 Main Street Racine, Wisconsin		53403
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

Large accelerated filer ☐	Accelerated filer ☒
Non-accelerated filer (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) ☐	Smaller reporting company ☐
	Emerging growth company ☐

	JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC.

	BY	/s/ Helen P. Johnson-Leipold
		Helen P. Johnson-Leipold, Chairman and
		Chief Executive Officer