TACKLE BOX x HOOK HOODIE
Tackle x Hook

TACKLE BOX x HOOK HOODIE

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Designed in Highlands, made in America
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About this piece

A heather gray heavyweight hoodie carrying a pen-and-ink striped bass across the chest—anatomically precise, lateral view, the kind of illustration you'd find in a mid-century field guide. The left sleeve bears a small hook-and-anchor mark. Champion Reverse Weave construction, which means the body is cut horizontally to resist shrinkage and the side panels are sewn in to allow movement without riding up. The striper has defined the rhythm of this coastline for as long as people have fished it. Spring and fall runs through the Narrows. Surfcasters at dawn on the ocean side of the Hook. Party boats working the channels. The bass moves, the fleet follows, the seasons turn. This one's for anyone who knows the difference between a keeper and a short, who's cleaned fish on a tailgate, who understands that a good day on the water doesn't require a limit. It's a working garment that doesn't announce itself, heavy enough for October mornings on the beach or a cold ride back across the bay.

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Designed in Highlands, NJ and made in America. Orders ship within 3–5 business days via USPS or UPS. Free shipping on US orders over $75; otherwise standard shipping is $7.99. International shipping available at cost. Returns accepted within 30 days of delivery on unworn items — contact shop@abovethehook.com to initiate.
About ATH Products +
Every Above the Hook product carries something specific: a place, a history, a reason. We don't make things for their own sake. Each design starts in the Highlands and is named after something you can stand on, swim in, or watch from the bluff. Wearing one is a kind of small declaration.

TACKLE BOX x HOOK HOODIE

Dawn at Sandy Hook, October light cutting low across the bay. The striped bass move inshore with the tide, chasing bunker into the shallow cuts between the jetties. You've seen the same run for decades — same rocks, same birds, same silhouettes of anglers in waders spreading out along the beach at first light.

This is a collaboration with Tackle Box, the coastal outfitter that has quietly supplied the peninsula's fishing community since before tourism rewrote the shoreline. Their storefront sits a mile inland from the Hook, stocked deep with terminal tackle, local tide charts, and the kind of institutional knowledge you can't buy online. We asked them to help us draw the striperMorone saxatilis, the Atlantic migratory that defines spring and fall on this coast. The fish that appears in colonial account books and WPA murals and every conversation about what the bay used to hold.

The illustration runs wide across the chest in black ink on sport grey heavyweight fleece. Left sleeve carries the joint lockup. This is a cold-morning hoodie, mid-weight and built to stay soft. Ribbed cuffs, pouch pocket, drawcord hood. The kind of thing that accumulates salt and sand and memory without complaint.

Wear it on the rocks. Wear it on the deck. Wear it when someone asks if they're running and you already know the answer.

TACKLE BOX x HOOK HOODIE — Above the Hook
Above the Hook · Highlands, NJ
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