Fish Taco Chronicles · A Tymmber Outdoor Publication

Why This Publication Lives Here

Fish Taco Chronicles 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.

For thirty years Shawn Arnold documented the intersection of outdoor life, food culture, and the kind of travel that only happens when you follow the fish. That story deserves a digital future, a hardware partner, and a platform built for exactly this world. Tymmber Outdoor is that platform. The RAAK is that 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 thirty years of fish taco culture.

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 Chronicles 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 no publication in the fishing world has been telling it longer than Fish Taco Chronicles.

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

The Story Nobody Has Fully Told Yet

Catch.
Clean.
Cook.

Fish Taco Chronicles has always known 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 Chronicles, under Tymmber stewardship, 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

Shawn's Chronicle

The founder's voice — unchanged, unfiltered, still the reason people keep coming back

Platform Integration

Franklin Library · Kitchen Table

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

Fish Taco Chronicles · Founder & Publisher · Est. 1995

Shawn Arnold

Publisher, Arnold Publications · Huntington Beach, CA · High school classmate, old friend, fellow outdoor obsessive

Shawn Arnold has been in the publishing business since 1980 — long enough to know that the magazines worth building are the ones nobody asked for. He and co-founder Leonard Davenport launched Fish Taco Chronicles in 1995 as a way to go fishing and tell their wives they were working. Thirty years later it has become one of the most recognized fishing publications on the West Coast — covering sport fishing in Sitka, fly fishing the Green River in Wyoming, surf fishing the California coast, and always, always, the best fish taco in the room.

When Del Taco launched its fish taco promotion, they came to Fish Taco Chronicles first. That is the kind of credibility you build one issue at a time, over three decades, because you actually care about the subject. Shawn cares. He always has.

Under Tymmber stewardship, Fish Taco Chronicles gets the digital infrastructure, the hardware partner, and the content ecosystem it was always capable of supporting. The archive lives. The voice stays. The next thirty years begin.

FTC Home · All Issues → Read Issue 001 → LinkedIn → Advisory Group →

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 Shawn's voice intact.

Hardware Integration

RAAK Field Kitchen

The RAAK becomes the official field kitchen of Fish Taco Chronicles. 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.

Fish TacoChronicles

The KitchenFollowsthe Fish.

Catch.Clean.Cook.

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

Fish Taco
Chronicles

The Kitchen
Follows
the Fish.

Catch.
Clean.
Cook.