He took you fishing and provided the bait and was going to show you why he was the " HARBOR KING", is that it? This sounds similar to what a buddy did to me. He said he was the "ALL TIME HALIBUTT KICKER".
He took me out in his boat and provided all the tackle necessary to have identical tackle for "The great fish-off", as he called it. I got a little suspicious when he wouldn't even let me bait my own hook. (This guy was known to be a prankster). After he got 2 Halibut and I missed 3, I got ahold of my hook and found that he'd filed the point off at the barb. It was filed FLAT. After that I tied on a good hook and put him in his place with 5 flatties C&Rd to 14# and 1 8# kept for dinner, to his 4 C&Rd (including his first 2). So in the time it took him to get 2, I got 6, and I still had him over to dinner even after he filed my hook.

Tight lines,
Wade