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Eliel Santos

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For eight years, Eliel Santos has been using dental floss and mousetrap glue to reel in gold, jewelry, electronics and cash trapped beneath city sidewalk grates.

Hes gone fishin on the streets of New York.  

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Hes gone fishin on the streets of New York.

If you drop it, Im going to pick it up so be careful, advised Santos, 38, a Puerto Rico native who lives in The Bronx.

When The Post followed Santos on a fishing trip last week, he hauled in a green iPod Nano in Times Square, a fake gold necklace, and a pocket full of change along Broadway between 23rd and 47th streets.

He wastes no time, walking quickly from one side of the street to the other, his head cocked as he peers with laser focus into the darkness below.

Suddenly, like a heron zeroing in on a creek minnow, he freezes and stands over his target. He quickly lowers the sticky lure, which he controls with the precision of an archer.

With a fatal strike, his prey is snagged.

Just a quarter, he says, stuffing the coin in his pocket.

Santos fishes around Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens seven days a week and remembers every grate like its a city landmark.

This one here, I helped a guy get back his wedding ring, he says in Times Square. He was worried he was going to get in trouble he was almost crying.

He pays particular attention to areas where tourists are exchanging money with street vendors.

They sit down to get a portrait and their money falls out, he says.

Most items he catches are pawned his biggest take was $1,800 for an 18k gold and diamond bracelet he caught in Harlem. Some items he leaves in their place. I saw a bloody knife in Brooklyn on Franklin Avenue I didnt touch it.

His white whale? A woman told me she lost a $20,000 ring near Madison Square Garden, he says. I couldnt find it.

He got hooked on the urban trade entirely by happenstance.

I saw a guy on 41st Street and Broadway who dropped his keys down a grate and he was looking for a locksmith.

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