Welcome to the Royal Oak Website. If you are enquiring about joining us please go to the Membership section and fill in a new member's application form. To join you can bring it along to one of our meetings on the last Thursday of every month (excluding December) at the Isleworth working men's club or contact a committee member on the Contact Us page.

If you want to renew your membership please fill in a renewal form from the Membership section. Alternatively we send out forms to all current members with the Annual newsletter inviting you to rejoin before the end of March.

For up and coming matches see the fixtures page, these may change from time to time. For availability of pegs for guests and up to date information please get in touch with us through the Contact Us page.

Our Presentation evening in 2012 was timed to coincide with the Isleworth working men's club's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Throughout the day there were all sorts of prize draws and kiddies activities. The Royal Oak a/c played its part by producing a barbecue and burning burgers and hot dogs for the crowds. This was all thanks to Bernie Cullinane and his clan doing the organising and Reg Dando doing the burning. The Mayor of Hounslow and his dignitaries put in an appearance in the afternoon with the Isleworth club officials showing them around. Our presentation night commenced at 5pm and we promptly laid out the tables with all our trophies ready to be presented to the winners. Moments before the presentations were about to commence, the mayor graciously volunteered to present our trophies.

The mayor good to his word presented our trophies and complimented us on the appearance of our awards and the organisational skills needed to carry out the event. The mayor spent a fair amount of time with us presenting the trophies (as we have many different awards) and it was greatly appreciated that he spent his time on a small club as ours (as he is undoubtably very busy!). After all the trophies were handed out, the Isleworth Working Men's club had laid on one last treat for everyone, a five piece soul band called "The Foundations" they were great, and played all the old soul favourites, which was a great way to finish off the evening.

The Mayor of Hounslow presenting Mark Cullinane with one of his many Trophies, with Paul Sheldrick (back right) President of Isleworth workingmen's Club.

Every year the Royal Oak a/c volunteers its vast angling knowledge by running a coaching week for a selected few pre-GCSE students from the local school. Simon Fisher of Isleworth and Syon School organises the health and safety aspects and briefings to the kids, and we for our part show them the joys of angling and the practical side of fishing. In 2011 we spent five days at various venues with small fish bashing at Willinghurst in Guildford, and "pasty" carp fishing with the feeder at Wood Lane in Iver, Slough.

Below is an excerpt from our 2011 Newsletter on coaching week:

The much anticipated 11th July came around again and we met at the school; three teachers 4 Royal Oak anglers and 16 students, ready for our trip down to Willow park middle lake and an initial "training session". Well, as you may expect 16 school kids excited at being on the bank during term time is very difficult to manage but after an initial set up of rods and coaching on the principals of angling we finally got underway. We all opted to explain waggler fishing first as this was a more visual and instant way of catching fish. Some good fish were caught; one Carp of at least 5lb was landed by a lad who had borrowed a pole. Some of the lads caught their first fish here when they started using maggots to catch smaller fish (mainly small Roach but exciting for them). Simon said it was a very successful day, although some of our club members felt like they had spent most of the day untangling lines and putting on hooks, as the kids got to grips with the equipment.

Day two of our venture was at Willinghurst's "John's Lake". John's lake always seems to fish best in the first few pegs by the hut so all those pegs were taken first. Peter's lads had the maggots left over from the day before and so caught almost instantly. Some of Dave Fox's lads were using corn and started catching small Carp. After a rocky start including over feeding swims, a broken down mini bus and a dead fox, day 2 ended with some fair weights and a deeper understanding of the art of angling.

The rest of the week went more smoothly, and the students improved their fishing abilities, with the top students being awarded trophies for their hard work. Although the week was challenging for us, it was a fantastic experience for the lads, who take away important life skills from the week, including patience, determination, the importance of the environment and an insight into the popular sport of angling.

As an Angling club, we understand the importance of the environment and hold ourselves to certain rules to protect it. We try to instil a need to protect the environment whilst coaching students and show them that small changes can have a big impact on the surrounding wildlife. Examples of this are providing nesting boxes for birds or planting reeds for fish to spawn to, both of which have the potential to increase the wildlife population. A fair few of our members have ponds in their gardens and conservation and the protection of wildlife is for us an essential part of the whole angling experience. The main thing is to get out and enjoy the environment and angling as a sport whilst ensuring a healthy respect for the world around us. This is what we hope the students can take away with them after fishing with us.