I caught my first two barbel from the Royalty,fished it holiday wise for several years,before joining Christchurch AC and fishing the middle Avon,catching my first doubles,then lots of 5/10lbers,then my local rivers became better without the distance to travel,then marriage and kids,I fished the Royalty a few times towards the end of my time fishing around Ringwood,had catches of five and six barbel in a session,now I holiday at Christchurch 3 weeks a year and fish the lower Stour in the evenings,I have several contacts in the area,one a very good friend who is the lower Stour manager for Ringwood DAC,I asked him how the Royalty was fishing only two nights ago,he has told me twice now how grim it is,if it was fishing he would be on it himself,but he isn't,sad but he tells me the otters have been hard at it on the venue....i've caught so many chub,barbel and bream there it doesn't bear thinking about,quite a few mullet too....