Often overlooked, the pickerel is an aggressive fish that can be found in shallow grassy ponds all throughout the Cape & Islands. Pickerel are native to the region and have been swimming in the Cape’s ponds for many thousands of years. During this trip I was fishing a pond in Mashpee with Bassmaster High School anglers Jared Coates and Lucas Osborne during the month of October. The weather could not of been any nicer with flat calm conditions and beautiful fall foliage. We started by fishing a s