VENICE — A group of men gathered on a dock, their faces flushed after a full day on the bayou. In front of them, a crowd clad in camouflage and fishing gear marked the boundaries of an unlikely field ...

The boat was slicing through choppy waves many miles out to sea when the cry went out and fingers pointed the captain toward a patch of blue water, boiling with gray froth. It was a pogie ball, a ...