Yes, I waded out and pulled them out of a brush pile a couple of weeks ago. No numbers on either fish, as I threw them on the bank with the rest of the dead tilapia. The first freeze hit us hard, and I'm sure that the tilapia was near death, and offered little or no resistance. No way I can see a tilapia that big not escaping that LMB. Rapid freezes can really dump a lot of tilapia into the food mix, and there were no tilapia floating less than 10" long.
Not sure about the gape. The tilapia was actually at about a 45 degree angle, and is a little taller than the pics shows. If the LMB was in the process of repositioning the tilapia to a horizontal position, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
