JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors

Johnson Outdoors Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Johnson Outdoors Inc. and its subsidiaries (the Company) as of September 27, 2024 and September 29, 2023, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 27, 2024, and the related notes to the consolidated financial statements (collectively, the financial statements). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of September 27, 2024 and September 29, 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 27, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of September 27, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in 2013, and our report dated December 11, 2024 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Evaluation of Obsolete and Excess Inventory Reserve

As described within Notes 1 and 15 to the consolidated financial statements, the consolidated inventory balance as of September 27, 2024 was $234,584,000, net of $24,796,000 in reserves, of which a significant portion relates to the Fishing segment. The Company values inventory at the lower of cost (determined using the first-in, first-out method) or net realizable value. Management develops assumptions when estimating the inventory reserves based on expected future demand, market conditions, and industry conditions.

We identified the value of the obsolete and excess inventory related to the Fishing segment as a critical audit matter as there was a high degree of auditor judgment and increased audit effort when performing audit procedures given the subjective nature of the significant assumptions utilized by management.

Our audit procedures related to the Company’s evaluation of the obsolete and excess inventory reserve for the Fishing segment include the following primary procedures, among others:

•We obtained an understanding of the relevant controls related to the obsolete and excess inventory and tested such controls for design and operating effectiveness.

•We tested the completeness of the inventory population subject to the obsolete and excess reserve, and in addition,we recalculated the reserve and confirmed that calculation conformed to the Company policy for inventory reserves.

•We performed a retrospective review of current year activity compared to prior year estimates to evaluate management's estimation accuracy.

•We evaluated the reasonableness of management's significant assumptions related to predicted or internally developed forecasted product demand.

Goodwill Impairment

As described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company recorded an impairment charge of $11,173,000 in the Fishing reporting unit to fully impair the Company’s goodwill during the fiscal year ended September 27, 2024. Goodwill is tested for impairment at least annually, at the reporting unit level, by comparing the estimated fair value of the reporting unit to the carrying value. The Company uses a discounted cash flow model, which is considered an income valuation approach, to estimate the fair value of its reporting units. When the carrying value of the reporting unit exceeds its fair value, an impairment charge is recorded for the amount that the reporting unit’s carrying value exceeds its fair value, not to exceed the carrying value of the goodwill.

We identified the goodwill impairment recorded by the Company as a critical audit matter due to the significant assumptions made by management to estimate the fair value of the fishing reporting unit, including revenue growth rates, profit margins and the discount rate. Auditing management’s assumptions required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increase in audit effort, including the use of our valuation specialists, due to the impact these assumptions could have on the impairment recorded by the Company.

Our audit procedures related to the Company’s estimate of fair value of the Fishing reporting unit included the following, among others:

•We obtained an understanding of management’s controls relating to estimating the fair value of the Fishing reporting unit and tested such controls for design and operating effectiveness.

•We utilized our valuation specialists to test the reasonableness of the discount rate by comparing the inputs used by management to publicly available market data.

•We tested the reasonableness of the management’s forecasts of revenue and profit margins by comparing them to historical results and industry forecasts.

•We tested the underlying data used by management for completeness and accuracy by comparing it to source information.

•We tested the mathematical accuracy of management’s discounted cash flow model and recalculated the impairment charge by comparing the estimated fair value of the Fishing reporting unit to its carrying value.

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2010.

/s/RSM US LLP

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

December 11, 2024