Named after Hakone, the misty mountain lake district southwest of Tokyo prized among Japanese trout anglers, the DD Hakone Orange II wears a bright orange back that fades down through a burnished gold flank, with fine dark scale etching catching the light and a paler belly underneath. It’s a refinement of the original Hakone Orange used on the smaller Great Hunting jerkbaits, tuned here for the flagship GH110’s larger, more visible profile, and its warm two-tone finish has made it a popular pickup among collectors chasing the region-specific naming that runs through the Megabass trout-focused lines.
On the water, DD Hakone Orange II leans into visibility and warmth rather than pure realism: the orange top and gold flank flash well in the tannin-stained or slightly turbid flows typical of mountain streams and reservoir inflows, while the pale belly keeps the profile natural from below. It suits overcast days and the low-light windows around dawn and dusk on rivers holding yamame, amago, or stocked rainbow trout, where a touch of extra flash and warmth can pull a reaction strike that a purely natural pattern might not.