The Artful Angler – Montanan Mike Gurnett celebrates wildlife in metal after being a spokesman for the natural world

Mike Gurnett of Helena, Montana says with no hint of irony: “My first welds looked like goose s–t.”

To some, like city slickers and suburbanites that live in metropolitan statistical areas, that would sound crass, like breaking glass to said slickers’ eardrums.

But to Montanans, real Montanans, that is a true and quite apt analogy—a quick to the point vivid comparison and reflection of the natural world in which we live, something that you can relate to if you have tried to sidestep goose feculence, like along the Upper Missouri River say, during high fishing season.