Anybody fished Lake Chautauqua for walleye before?  I'm headed up there for a long weekend and should be able to get the boat in the water for a few hours at night.  Was planning on working shallow rocks and weed edges with crankbaits and jigs.  Done a little homework but was just wondering if anybody has been there before and if they may have some tips.
 
I don't even know I bother asking because my wife will probably put a nightcrawler under a bobber and catch a 50" musky...

My friend has caught them on Chautauqua with Musky sized lures before, but hasn't ever targeted them. I've only ever fished the lake for Musky as well, Walleye are more like baitfish there lol.

Although in all seriousness, I've heard that finding sudden dropoffs and slowly jigging bucktails will work pretty well for them when they're biting. Red is supposed to be a good color for them in Chautauqua.

Larger creek mouths; troll with the electric motor or cast shallow rapalas out in front of these creek mouths.  Earlier in the month was probably better but should still work now.  
 
Before it gets dark, I'd work the drop offs and structure near these creek mouths with a jig and half crawler or jig and minnow.  Cast shallow and bounce it back deeper....

Only Ice fished the lake,jigging Raps in front of the condos.

Fish the Bell Tower with jigging rapala or jigs with bait. Locals would troll after dark but that was along time ago. I haven't fished there in years.

My Dad, Brother and I almost always limited out on the walleye by trolling Bear Paw spinners (harnesses) just outside the weed beds. Other harnesses worked OK, but the Bear Paw snelled with 3 silver Colorado blades seemed to work the best. Most often the best times were early and late in the day, or if it was overcast with or without rain, anytime was the ticket. Most of our fishing was at Bemus to Long Point and at the Bell Tower. We caught many muskies on the harnesses also, but always released them.

Thanks for the info.  Only had one good day to fish and struck out on the walleye unfortunately.  Tried jigs and minnows but no luck with anything except perch.  Locals said crawler harnesses by the weed beds.  Unfortunately, I'm not a very good troller and the missus doesn't enjoy that kind of fishing.  
 
The wine and the campfires, however, was fantastic. Will be back at Arthur for the weekend hopefully. 

Thats why you leave her at home, when your seriously going after the toothy critters!  You can't expect the fish to adjust to you.  

Chautauqua isn't easy big water is tough when you don't know it.

On the deep side of the lake where the two connect heading toward the shallow lake just on the right before you cross the narrows into the shallow half there are some stair step ledges that are excellent for night jogging with a simple 1/8 oz white glo jig and crawler. Just work it nice and slow down the steps... we usually limit out there and it seems to be bigger fish (18"-24" the norm) happy hunting! The deep weededge on the right up to there is productive too with spinner and crawler harnesses but only about 1 of 5 are keeper size but still lots of fun!