Limited Edition Knotty, Not Nice Hoodie

KNOTTY, NOT NICE LIMITED EDITION HOODIE

The only list he keeps is in the logbook.

It has water temps, moon phases, and the exact tide the bait showed up last November. He doesn’t care who’s been good this year. He wants to know who showed up: who ran the inlet in the dark, who fished the slop when the forecast said stay home, and who lost the fish of the season at the boat and was back out the next morning anyway.

His December looks like the rest of his year, only colder. He’s in the shop, tying leaders and re-spooling reels that should have been retired a decade ago. His fingers are cracked from salt and his patience is short, but every knot holds. He’s not jolly. He’s just ready, and when you show up with a busted rig the night before a trip, he’ll fix it without a word and send you back out.

This is our holiday drop, rigged for the guy who never really takes the season off. The saltiest Santa on the water in orange bibs, grey beard, and a beanie pulled down, knotting line under a retro Grundéns wordmark arched overhead in a warped holiday cut. Full-color illustration on our classic heavyweight hoodie.

Forget nice. He’s checking his knots twice.