if I recall, downes is hailing from the lane county area right?
Barview is probably going to mean a 3 hour drive.. The Siuslaw is right here out 126, the Alsea out hwy 34, both of which you can reach within 90 minutes from anywhere close to eugene/spfd, and there are jetties in Florence and Newport and Waldport, lots of rockfish and such. You can fish for salmon and steelhead if you get the right timing, although it tends to be combat fishing on the bank, that's not terrible for a newbie because you can learn a bunch unless all the folks around you get belligerently drunk..
I keep wanting to try fishing for pinkfin perch at the siuslaw mouth but it's a Snowy Plover reserve so I can't bring my dog without making sure I've got all the logistics buttoned up to take care of her..
And outside of the heat-related restrictions and closures on lots of bodies of water, you can kill it on little cutthroat in most of the streams along the coast, as long as you keep a reg book handy and pay attention to barb/barbless bait/no-bait, and open dates.