Starcraft Tom: I don't know what regs you got that info from but from the State regs it doesn't say anything about fishing in lake Crescent. If the lake that you are interested in fishing is not in the regs you should go to the state wide rules. So the way I read it is that it is open all year around,but I can only keep what the state allows. Now some county's like to put their own rules on some lakes. But those are not listed in the State regs. And the only way to find out about them is to go to the boat launch's to find out. Or if the County's in question list that info on web pages.

P/S I just looked at my map and I noticed that,that lake is in the boundries of Olympic National Park. So that would be a whole new set of rules. That is if that is the Crescent lake that is in question here.