If they find them, they stop, put out their little boats, and try to set a net around them. The netting of fish is a mysterious and powerful thing which has been going on from the beginning of time. It is one of those powerful actions built into the very basic drama of creation, which is at the same time a metaphor for the most powerful spiritual movements which are at the heart of the creation itself. So this story of Jesus with the disciples on the shore of the lake called Gennesaret or Galilee is an archetypal story which works on the surface and works on a lot of deeper levels as well. In that way, it is typical of human experience.
All human experience is, ultimately, metaphor for the divine-human conversation.
Although it appears the greatest movement is going on on the surface, the opposite may well be the case. The greatest movement may be going on under the surface. The deeper you get, the more powerful the movements that are taking place. From the photographable, physical surface to the invisible, spiritual depth, all these levels are going on all the time. First there is the level of the pure story itself.