JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC

For The 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

To Be Held Virtually On February 26, 2026

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the

2026 Virtual Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on February 26, 2026:

The Notice of Annual Meeting, this Proxy Statement and the Accompanying Annual Report

on Form 10-K are Available atwww.proxyvote.com

This Proxy Statement, which is first being mailed on or about January 9, 2026, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 18, 2025, is furnished in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Board of Directors of Johnson Outdoors Inc. (the “Company”), for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be used at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Company to be held virtually on Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 8:00 a.m., central standard time, at the following weblink: www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/JOUT2026 and at any adjournment or postponement thereof (the “Annual Meeting”).

You may vote in any of the following ways:

If you submit a proxy now, your right to vote at the Annual Meeting is not waived should you decide to attend and vote online during the virtual meeting.

Shares represented by a properly executed proxy will be voted at the Annual Meeting and, when instructions have been given by the shareholder, will be voted in accordance with those instructions. If you submit a proxy without giving voting instructions, the persons named as proxies on the proxy card will vote your shares: (1) FOR the election of the directors named in this Proxy Statement, (2) FOR the ratification of RSM US LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending October 2, 2026, (3) FOR approval of the non-binding advisory proposal on executive compensation, (4) FOR adoption and approval of the amendment to the Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2020 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares available thereunder for awards to participants, and (5) FOR adoption and approval of the amendment to the Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2023 Non-Employee Director Stock Ownership Plan to increase the number of shares available thereunder for awards to participants.

As of the date of this Proxy Statement, the Company does not expect any matters to be voted upon at the Annual Meeting other than the proposals set forth in the accompanying Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders. If any other matters properly come before the Annual Meeting, including, among other things, consideration of a motion to adjourn the meeting to another time or place, a properly executed proxy gives the persons named as proxies on the proxy card authority to vote on such matters. The individuals named and acting as proxies will have the authority to vote on those matters according to their best judgment to the same extent as the person delivering the proxy would be entitled to vote. If the Annual Meeting is adjourned or postponed, a proxy will remain valid and may be voted at the adjourned or postponed meeting.

PROXY STATEMENT

You may revoke your proxy at any time before it is actually voted by giving written notice of revocation to the Secretary of the Company, by attending the Annual Meeting virtually and voting online or by submitting a duly executed proxy to the Company bearing a later date. Attendance and participating online in the Annual Meeting will not, by itself, revoke a proxy. If you have given voting instructions to a broker, nominee, fiduciary or other custodian that holds your shares in “street name,” you may revoke those instructions by following the directions given by the broker, nominee, fiduciary or other custodian. If a shareholder properly signs and returns the proxy card but does not specify how to vote, then the shareholder’s shares will be voted FOR the election of the directors listed in the enclosed proxy, FOR the ratification of RSM US LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the 2026 fiscal year, FOR approval of the non-binding advisory proposal on executive compensation, FOR adoption and approval of the amendment to the Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2020 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares available thereunder for awards to participants and FOR adoption and approval of the amendment to the Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2023 Non-Employee Director Stock Ownership Plan to increase the number of shares available thereunder for awards to participants.

Telephone and Internet voting procedures are designed to authenticate shareholders’ identities, to allow shareholders to give their voting instructions and to confirm that shareholders’ instructions have been properly recorded. Shareholders voting via the Internet should understand that there might be costs associated with electronic access, such as usage charges from Internet access providers and telephone companies that the shareholder must bear.

The record date for shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the Annual Meeting is December 18, 2025. On the record date, the Company had outstanding and entitled to vote 9,246,844 shares of Class A common stock and 1,206,210 shares of Class B common stock. A majority of the votes entitled to be cast at the Annual Meeting, represented either in person (including attending virtually) or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum with respect to the meeting. Holders of Class A common stock, voting as a separate class, elect three directors and are entitled to one vote per share for directors designated to be elected by holders of Class A common stock. Holders of Class B common stock elect the remaining directors and are entitled to one vote per share for directors designated to be elected by holders of Class B common stock. Holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock voting together as a single voting group are entitled to vote on the proposal to ratify RSM US LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the 2026 fiscal year, to vote to approve the non-binding advisory proposal on executive compensation, to vote to adopt and approve the amendment to the Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2020 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares available thereunder for awards to participants, and to vote to adopt and approve the amendment to the Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2023 Non-Employee Director Stock Ownership Plan to increase the number of shares available thereunder for awards to participants. The holders of Class A common stock are entitled to one vote per share, while holders of Class B common stock are entitled to ten votes per share on these proposals where Class A common stock and Class B common stock vote together as a single voting group. Approval of any other matter not specified in the Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders that may properly be presented at the Annual Meeting will require that the number of votes properly cast in favor of such matter exceed the number of votes properly cast against such matter, with the holders of the Class A common stock entitled to one vote per share and the holders of Class B common stock entitled to ten votes per share. Abstentions and broker non-votes (i.e., shares held by brokers in “street name,” voting on certain matters due to discretionary authority or instructions from the beneficial owners but not voting on other matters due to lack of authority to vote on such matters without instructions from the beneficial owner) will count toward the quorum requirement but will not count toward the determination of whether the directors are elected or whether such other matters are approved. The Inspector of Election appointed by our Board of Directors will count the votes and ballots.

Notice: The Annual Report to Shareholders, which contains certain additional information about the Company not required to be included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, is available this year to shareholders at https://www.johnsonoutdoors.com/annual-report, 24 hours a day and free of charge. The Company is not including the information contained on or available through its website as part of, or incorporating such information by reference into, this Proxy Statement.