Aquatic macrophytes play an important role in shaping lacustrine aquatic ecosystems by affecting water quality, providing habitat for fishes and macroinvertebrates, and altering physio-chemical processes like thermal conditions and nutrient cycling. However, the exact nature of interactions between plant communities and fish communities in Glacial Lakes in the Upper Midwest is unknown. Therefore, the objective of this project is to understand associations between fish and aquatic plants with the goal of developing new, holistic lake habitat management tools. Data from standard fisheries surveys in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan were used to describe the community composition of common game species in lakes and point intercept macrophyte surveys were used to describe the composition and characteristics of macrophyte communities. This study will assess to what extent fish and macrophyte communities are related and what environmental factors are driving relationships between them. Given the projected shifts in fish community composition due to factors like climate change, we anticipate these results will inform aquatic plant and fish community management under shifting ecological paradigms in the Upper Midwest.