Wow just went to cabelas last sunday to buy keitechs and saw the rage swimmer for 2bucks cheaper a pack. I really considered buying the RS but stuck with the keitechs after reading this thread im glad i did.

I had a chance to use them both today and if I had to use one it would be keitechs. I like strike king and still have a couple bags so if I change my opinion I will speak up later. Here is one off a keitech I caught today. 

6 hours ago, Bunnielab said:

 

I think this is sort of explains it.  The Rage Swimmers seem to be made of a much tougher plastic than the Keitech and I have found that the light wire hooks and light tackle that I had been using were giving me endless missed hooksets when I first tried the Rage Swimmers.  

 

Im not sure what your gear is, but I use a 7' MH when using a jighead (12lb fluoro), and a 7'1" MH or my 7'4" H with the beast (15-20lb fluoro) 

 

pretty standard for swimbaits.

Tried them a few different ways and had the same problem tosse them in the trash and went back to keitechs

This is kind of a common sense issue. Compare a real Senko with it's super soft plastic and salt core to a regular all plastic, much firmer stick bait. If you throw a 5/0 EWG on the stick bait it falls faster and gives it a similar flutter, where if you run a 1/0 or 2/0 like you would on a real Senko with it, it's just going to fall slowly with no action.

 

The Rage is much harder/tougher than a Keitech. The Keitech is going to be much more active at slow speeds with lighter terminal gear. It doesn't make one better than the other, it just makes them different.

 

Personally I have fell in love with the Yum Pulse minnow. I throw them about 90% of the time now.

This past weekend, I put one on the back of a Dirty Swim Jig and the tail wouldn't even kick unless I burned it.  I am also very disappointed.  

12 hours ago, Megastink said:

 

Im not sure what your gear is, but I use a 7' MH when using a jighead (12lb fluoro), and a 7'1" MH or my 7'4" H with the beast (15-20lb fluoro) 

 

pretty standard for swimbaits.

 

Yea, see I will run a weightless/lightly weighted 3.8 FI on a ML rod with great success.  

4 hours ago, Mosster47 said:

The Keitech is going to be much more active at slow speeds with lighter terminal gear.

The issue I have is that I used the exact same hook, exact same line, exact same everything. The Keitech swims, the Swimmer stays completely still unless burned.