Personalized Fishing Vest Ugly Christmas Sweater Rainbow Trout Lures

A small cream patch sewn onto the chest pocket reads MERRY FISHMAS, with a tiny pine tree standing beside the words. That one patch sets the tone for the whole sweater, which looks like a worn green fishing vest layered over a red holiday knit. Three lures hang from the pocket edge just below it, two in red and white and one in yellow and green, their silver hooks dangling the way they would when someone has just lifted them out of the tackle box. On the other side, a pocket stitched with a trout holds a pair of lures and a red and white bobber on a clip.

Fishing Vest Ugly Christmas Sweater With Lures Hanging Off the Pockets

Our Personalized Fishing Vest Ugly Christmas Sweater is made for the angler in your house, the one with more tackle than the garage can hold who will still say yes to a holiday party if a lure is involved. The vest has a gold zipper down the middle, round buttons on the flaps, and four pockets, each dressed for the season with pine sprigs, red berries, and a small pinecone. Two bobbers swing near the lower pockets. Because the design is personalized, it carries the name or detail of the person it was planned around, which turns a novelty sweater into one that clearly has an owner.

Rainbow Trout Stripes Running Down Both Sleeves

The sleeves keep the fishing going. Cream trout swim across bands of red and green, with rows of snowflakes and little Christmas trees running between them, and the same snowflake pattern circles the hem and the collar in deep red knit. Under the vest, the neckline shows more of that red and cream, so it reads as a vest worn over a sweater even though it is one piece. We designed it for men and women, so a husband, a dad, a fishing buddy, or a grandmother who outfishes everyone at the lake can all claim one. It suits a dock at the family reunion, a cabin the week of Christmas, or a table full of ugly sweaters where this one gets the most questions.

Where Else Does a Merry Fishmas Sweater Get Worn Beyond Christmas Morning?

Ice fishing weekends, lake cabin trips, ugly sweater parties, and bait shop runs in January all work, since the vest pockets and lures read as fishing gear long after the tree comes down. The rainbow trout stripes on the sleeves keep it relevant through the whole cold season.

Somewhere on that pocket, a red and white lure is waiting for the first relative who leans in and asks if it is real.