Water storage in lakes and reservoirs throughout the Intermountain West is highly sensitive to drought. Multiyear droughts may negatively affect fish spawning by leaving critical littoral habitat stranded along shorelines and by disrupting connectivity to tributaries. The loss of littoral habitat may have negative effects that cascade through aquatic ecosystems to degrade or even eliminate fisheries. We are using previous multiyear droughts to predict how future climate conditions with longer, more frequent droughts may affect littoral habitat and fishes. We are using Bear Lake, UT/ID as a model system to test whether the amount of littoral habitat available to aquatic organisms and lake-stream connectivity changes with lake elevation. We are evaluating whether reduced habitat and/or stream connectivity negatively affects the apex predators (Bonneville cutthroat trout) and forage fishes (Bear Lake sculpin).