Fish Taco Gazette · A Tymmber Outdoor Publication

Why This Publication Lives Here

Fish Taco Gazette was built on a simple, honest premise — go outside, catch something, cook it, and write about it without pretense. That is the Tymmber thesis delivered with a fishing rod.

Mike Isaacs has spent thirty years in the field — 1,000 nights out, 30,000 miles of terrain, and a conviction that the best meals happen where the road ends and the water begins. Fish Taco Gazette is the publication that documents that world. Tymmber Outdoor is the platform. The RAAK is the hardware. This is what comes next.

Tymmber Outdoor RAAK · Gen VI

The Kitchen
Follows
the Fish.

This is what happens when a hitch-mounted outdoor kitchen meets a lifetime of catching, cleaning, and cooking at the water's edge.

01 Catch Shore, pier, boat, kayak — the water decides

02 Clean RAAK prep surface · cutting board · running water

03 Cook RAAK stove · open fire grate · right there at the shore

The RAAK is a hitch-mounted modular outdoor kitchen — stove, prep surface, storage, grill — that deploys from your vehicle in under three minutes. It was built for exactly the moment Fish Taco Gazette has been writing about for thirty years: you pull the fish out of the water, you clean it on the tailgate, you cook it on the shore while the sun goes down.

No restaurant. No cooler full of ice. No thirty-mile drive home before dinner. Just the fish, the fire, the view, and the meal you earned. That is the Catch · Clean · Cook story — and Fish Taco Gazette exists to tell exactly that story — field-true, hardware-ready, and built for the people who actually live it.

// Elephant Butte Lake · Sierra County, NM · RAAK Gen VI in the field

The Story Nobody Has Fully Told Yet

Catch.
Clean.
Cook.

Fish Taco Gazette was founded on the knowledge that the best fish taco starts at the water's edge — not at the fish counter. The full arc of the story is the point: where you were when you caught it, what the light looked like when you cleaned it, and what it tasted like when you cooked it right there with your boots still on.

The RAAK makes that story possible for anyone with a hitch receiver. And Fish Taco Gazette becomes the publication that documents it — in print, digitally, on video, and in the field.

Content Vertical

Shore Cooking

Recipes, techniques, and real field reports from the water's edge — powered by the RAAK platform

Editorial Series

Best Fish Taco in the West

FTC's signature franchise — expanded into a digital series, a map, and an annual print feature

Field Report

Mike's Point

The publisher's voice — field notes, opinions, and dispatches from the road

Platform Integration

Franklin Library · Kitchen Table

FTC editorial woven into the Tymmber content ecosystem — archive, recipe library, and field guide

Fish Taco Gazette · Founder & Publisher · Est. 2026

Mike Isaacs

Founder, Tymmber Outdoor · Sierra County, New Mexico · Field researcher, entrepreneur, outdoor obsessive

Mike Isaacs learned to fish at Lake Cuyamaca in the San Diego backcountry with his grandfather, Roger Moore — California cattle rancher, artist, and the kind of man who taught you things without making it feel like a lesson. That lake is where this publication begins. Issue 001 goes back there on purpose.

Mike has spent thirty years since then studying what happens to people when they spend real time outdoors — not day trips, not curated adventures, but 1,000 nights and 30,000 miles of terrain across the American West. His conclusion: the outdoors makes people better. Fish Taco Gazette exists to document that thesis one catch, one cook, one story at a time.

He founded Tymmber Outdoor to build the hardware, the content ecosystem, and the community infrastructure that makes the outdoor life accessible to more people. The RAAK is the field kitchen. Fish Taco Gazette is the publication. The Catch · Clean · Cook arc is not a recipe column — it is a philosophy.

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What This Becomes · The Tymmber FTC Vision

A 30-year print publication finds its digital home — and a hardware partner built for the shore.

Digital Revival

FTC Online

The full archive digitized. New editorial cadence. A newsletter, a fish report, a recipe library — all running on Tymmber infrastructure with field-true editorial at the center.

Hardware Integration

RAAK Field Kitchen

The RAAK becomes the official field kitchen of Fish Taco Gazette. Every shore cook, every fish taco recipe, every "where to stay and play in Mexico" feature — anchored to the platform.

Content Flywheel

Franklin Library · Kitchen Table

FTC content flows into the Tymmber ecosystem — Kitchen Table gets the recipes, Franklin Library gets the archive, the Lifestyle vertical gets the travel stories.

Advertiser Migration

30 Years of Relationships

Tackle shops, charters, fish restaurants, gear manufacturers — a built advertiser base that transfers into a digital-first platform with far greater reach than quarterly print.

Annual Print

The Keeper Issue

One premium annual print edition — the best stories, the best photography, the best fish tacos of the year. Collectible. The kind of magazine you keep on the shelf.

Community

The Sovereign Circle

FTC readers join the Tymmber community — where outdoor enthusiasts, anglers, cooks, and field operators share the same table. Same values. Different rods.

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The KitchenFollowsthe Fish.

Catch.Clean.Cook.

A 30-year print publication finds its digital home — and a hardware partner built for the shore.

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Gazette

The Kitchen
Follows
the Fish.

Catch.
Clean.
Cook.