My experience has been fishing off the head boats out of Port Clinton so I've seen and tried a lot of combinations. My girlfriend always uses green beads and every time I go off and try something new on a slow day she'd get one on gold blade/ green beads. The ones I've tied the last couple years have been 2 red, 5 green and 2 more red on the back. In my research lately I've found that red is not even visible at the 25-33 ft depths we're often fishing (supposedly). I'm also going to attempt a new rig, replacing the beads all together with something else a little fatter, hoping for a bigger target.