I did quite a bit of fishing with micro tackle for this challenge, which is pretty new to me and while a bit frustrating, I found some success. It was fun because our lake up North has gone through 2 consecutive mild Winterkills, and we really hadn't seen all of the species that made it through yet. By microfishing the shoreline I was able to document 3 types of sunfish, yellow perch, black crappie, northern pike, tadpole madtom, golden shiner, banded killifish and blackchin shiner. We never even knew blackchins lived there before.
I caught the perch and crappie on wily wallaby strawberry licorice. The pumpkinseed, green sunfish and bluegill on a tiny piece of ham.
For the pike, I texas rigged a skinny slice of Famous Daves spicy pickle spear on an offset worm hook. With no weight, I fished it like a swimbait. It was very weedless. Each pickle slice would only last 10 casts or so before it fell off, but I got 3 savage strikes and missed them. Finally I got to a deep nice cabbage weed edge and let a fresh pickle fly. Halfway through my retrieve I watched this solid 7 pound pike attack it from the side!
Pike on a pickle. I'd actually try that method again some time!
I wasn't sure if the pike will count because I imparted action to the pickle, using it as a lure. Because of this I included 6 species.