Grate Fishing in The Big Apple!

Hi ya! How're you doing today? Reeling them in? Good to here! Reel yourself in a mugful of coffee and a virtual treat. Nothing fishy about those beauties, I'll tell you! Say...here's a 'grate' way to supplement your income...

Eliel Santos fishes the grates of New York City seven days a week, reeling in enough bounty to sustain him for the last eight years, he told the New York Post in April. The "fishing line" Santos, 38, uses is dental floss, with electrician's tape and Blue-Touch mouse glue -- equipment that "he controls with the precision of an archer," the Post reported. 

His biggest catch ever was a $1,800 (pawned value) gold and diamond bracelet, but the most popular current items are iPhones, which texting-on-the-move pedestrians apparently have trouble hanging onto. 

I'm not surprised that people drop their cellphones down grates. You'd be amazed at how many get dropped in the toilet! Well, good fishing, Eliel! It takes a good eye and a steady hand. Probably a bottle of hand sanitizer, too, eh!

See ya!

Bob