I finally got my HDS tweaked a little bit and played around with it some more. All I can say is WOW!!! I went from wanting to return the unit to loving it after I scroured the web for the correct settings. This thing is amazing so far and I only have had it out on a few trips. I cant wait to scan and see what other surprises await me on my local waters!

I found an underwater mountain I think!
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Some lil fish
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Some Bigger fish

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Some really big fish!!
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The mother of all boat docks!
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Some smaller docks
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I know I was scratching my head for hours trying to figure this unit out. I will post my settings for others to try and If anyone has any advice for me on how to better use this unit please share!

You have to tell the unit what transducer you have. It should be on the silver tag on the transducer cable. My transducer is an older lowrance so I used the generic 50/200 hz option.
Frequency is set at 200hz. 50hz is for DEEP water When I say Deep I mean saltwater deep like several hundred feet. However I did find If I switch it to 50hz it tracked bottom better at full speed 30mph where 200hz would loose bottom.
Ping set to max
Auto sensitivity on
Fish mode=shallow water
Noise rejection LOW
Fish ID off
Surface clarity off
Sonor pallette 13
colorline 72/74
Structure scan Contrast set 63-72% 800kz for shallow water 455kz for deep
Surface clarity and noise rejection off