Scott Swanson
Gabriel Thomas and Bode Nichols have the level gaze and physical stature of successful high school athletes. But their sport isn’t played on a field, a course, a pitch, a track.
They compete on water – usually with a definite current, sometimes in the deep recesses of a lake.
They fish. For bass.
Thomas, 16, a sophomore at Sweet Home High School, and Nichols, 14, an eighth-grader at Sweet Home Junior High, are…