I'm not sure about the bloating, but some months I get emotional around the time I'm ovulating. I can usually tell because I'll cry at really silly things. The other day, I was crying while watching Cheaper by the Dozen 2.
Did a little internet searching and it looks like yes, some people gain around that time.
Yes to the water gain. I find as I get older that the ovulation symptoms are more intense than the PMS (I mean in comparative degree), not that they're worse over the years as a whole.
For me yes! Years ago I used to post about this on 3FC actually, that I get like a mini pms aound ovulation. Over the past few years it has seemed to subside and my cycle has gotten REALLY wacky....anywhere from 17-36 days. That's how we had our surprise actually. I was CERTAIN I was PMSing and that we were fine to ummmm, well anyway turns out my pms symptoms were O symptoms and well...
My scale doesn't move for about a week around ovulation. It's annoying, but I charted my weight loss against my cycle dates for a few months and the patterns were pretty consistent.