Catfish Bend Casino

CATFISH BEND CASINO: Catfish Bend Casino plans to close its struggling Fort Madison gambling boat, eliminating about 180 jobs in southeast Iowa. Catfish Bend had operated in southeast Iowa since November 1994, spending summer months docked on the Mississippi River in Fort Madison and winter months tied up in Burlington. The situation changed in June when the company opened the land based Burlington complex, offering a larger casino with 180 hotel rooms, four restaurants, plus a convention center, spa, bowling center and water park.